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A Different Drummer - the extraordinary rediscovered classic (Paperback)
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A Different Drummer - the extraordinary rediscovered classic (Paperback)
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Loot Price R289
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'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 Yorker June, 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.
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