![]() ![]() In addition to Dunfords, Kelley has published other novels dem (1967), A Drop of Patience (1965), and A Different Drummer (1962) and a collection of short stories, Dancers on the Shore. ![]() 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.Ī lost masterpiece republished for 2018, A Different Drummer is for listeners who have been waiting for the next rediscovered classic. The narrative uses a phonetically rendered version of black speech and the characters move between life and death, as well as across centuries. ![]() The reaction that follows is told across a dozen chapters, each from the perspective of a different white townsperson. And thereafter, the entire African American population leave with him. 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. ![]() 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. In 1962, aged just 24, William Melvin Kelley's debut novel, A Different Drummer, earned him critical comparisons to James Baldwin and William Faulkner. ![]()
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