Disclosure : This site contains affiliate links to products. We may receive a commission for purchases made through these links.

A Different Drummer: the extraordinary rediscovered classic of 2018

`More than lives up to the hype` Observer`Set to become a publishing sensation` Kirsty Lang, BBC Front Row`An astounding achievement` Sunday Times`The lost giant of American literature` New YorkerJune, 1957. One afternoon, in the backwater town of Sutton, a young black farmer by the name of Tucker Caliban matter-of-factly throws salt on his field, shoots his horse and livestock, sets fire to his house and departs the southern state. And thereafter, the entire African-American population leave with him.The reaction that follows is told across a dozen chapters, each from the perspective of a different white townsperson. These are boys, girls, men and women; either liberal or conservative, bigoted or sympathetic – yet all of whom are grappling with this spontaneous, collective rejection of subordination.In 1962, aged just 24, William Melvin Kelley`s debut novel A Different Drummer earned him critical comparisons to James Baldwin and William Faulkner. Fifty-five years later, author and journalist Kathryn Schulz happened upon the novel serendipitously and was inspired to write the New Yorker article `The Lost Giant of American Literature`, included as a foreword to this edition.

Related Products:

The Queen of Whale Cay: The Extraordinary Story of `Joe` Carstairs, the Fastest Woman on Water The Dinosaurs Rediscovered: How a Scientific Revolution is Rewriting History The Mitford Girls: The Biography of an Extraordinary Family The Great Cave Rescue: The Extraordinary Story of the Thai Boy Football Team Trapped in a Cave for 18 Days Lives of Girls and Women Wally Funk`s Race for Space: The Extraordinary Story of a Female Aviation Pioneer Going with the Boys: Six Extraordinary Women Writing from the Front Line Extraordinary Birds: Essays and Plates of Rare Book Selections from the American Museum of Natural History Library The Border Trilogy: Picador Classic The Little Drummer Girl American Daredevil: The Extraordinary Life of Richard Halliburton, the World`s First Celebrity Travel Writer Mr. Snow Tunnel 29: Love, Espionage and Betrayal: the True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall The Penguin Book of American Short Stories The Other The Pregnant Widow James Martin`s American Adventure: 80 classic American recipes Girls of Riyadh Favourite Stories of Courageous Girls: Inspiring Heroines from Classic Children`s Books The Literature Book Winged Bull: The Extraordinary Life of Henry Layard, the Adventurer Who Discovered the Lost City of Nineveh Beneath My Feet: Writers on Walking: 2018 Pocket Dangerous Book for Boys – Things to do The Country Girls Trilogy: The Country Girls; The Lonely Girl; Girls in their Married Bliss The Boys` Back to School Book We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World – From Nobel Peace Prize Winner Malala Yousafzai Default ThumbnailMyth Match Miniature: A Fantastical Flipbook of Extraordinary Beasts Pirate Pete`s Potty: A Ladybird Potty Training Book Magical Fairy Tales: Contains 30 classic tales Chris-Craft Boats: An American Classic You Me Everything: A Richard & Judy Book Club selection 2018 Princess Polly`s Potty: A Ladybird Potty Training Book The Lost Child The New York Coffee Guide 2018: 2018 MapSherpa POD Pacific Islands – Published 1962 634 x 479 mm National Geographic Rarely Seen: Photographs of the Extraordinary Swansong 1945: A Collective Diary from Hitler`s Last Birthday to Ve Day The Snow Spider Modern Classic The Slave The Portable Beat Reader