A Different Drummer
Autor William Melvin Kelleyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 apr 1990
June, 1957. One hot afternoon in the backwaters of the Deep South, a young black farmer named Tucker Caliban salts his fields, shoots his horse, burns his house, and heads north with his wife and child. His departure sets off an exodus of the state's entire black population, throwing the established order into brilliant disarray. Told from the points of view of the white residents who remained, A Different Drummer stands, decades after its first publication in 1962, as an extraordinary and prescient triumph of satire and spirit.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780385413909
ISBN-10: 0385413904
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 132 x 204 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Anchor Books
ISBN-10: 0385413904
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 132 x 204 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Anchor Books
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Descriere
Set in a mythical backwater Southern town, A Different Drummer is the extraordinary story of Tucker Caliban, a quiet, determined descendant of an African chief who for no apparent reason destroys his farm and heads for parts unknown--setting off a mass exodus of the state's entire Black population. A novel of compelling power and haunting impact.
Notă biografică
William Melvin Kelley was born in New York City in 1937 and attended the Fieldston School and Harvard. The author of four novels and a short story collection, he was a writer in residence at the State University of New York at Geneseo and also taught at the New School and Sarah Lawrence College. He was awarded the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for lifetime achievement and the Dana Reed Prize for creative writing. He died in 2017.
Recenzii
Every so often, a 'forgotten classic' is rediscovered around which the literary world rallies with praise and prediction of a 'Stoner effect' . . . A Different Drummer more than lives up to the hype, both in terms of its literary accomplishment and in the power of its political vision . . . Today the book offers us an unflinching study of the southern white American psyche at the cusp of the civil rights movement: its belligerence against change, the incomprehension and anger. It is woeful to think that almost 60 years later, Kelley's story seems just as timely and as urgent, but what a gift to literature that we have rediscovered it.
Simple, timeless, mythic . . . an astounding achievement . . . still relevant and powerful today.
Set to become a publishing sensation.
Black America's lost literary masterpiece.
Astounding . . . Absolutely essential reading.
This fierce and brilliant novel is written with sympathy as well as sorrow. It's a myth packed with real-world resonance.
Wonderful . . . full of dazzling moments of social and psychological observation that jump from the page as if they were written yesterday.
A Different Drummer is a revelation. A story so vividly alive I closed the book a different person from the one who opened it. A vital classic of literature.
Brilliant . . . The rare first novel that makes future ones seem both inevitable and exciting.
Despite the novel being over 50 years old it feels as relevant as ever, sitting alongside the likes of The Good Immigrant, Slay in Your Lane and Becoming.
Kelley blended fantasy and fact to construct an alternative world whose sweep and complexity drew comparisons to James Joyce and William Faulkner.
This first novel just perhaps could play a part in changing our history.
[A] masterpiece . . . Kelley wrote intricate novels that identified with the rejection of dominant social orders.
An exceptionally powerful and elegant first novel.
Superbly written . . . a stunning work.
A rare first novel: dynamic, imaginative, and accomplished . . . It is a custom to say of first novels that they 'show promise.' But we need not say that of this one. It shows accomplishment; it shows fulfillment.
So brilliant is this initial novel that one must consider Mr. Kelley for tentative future placement among the paragons of American letters.
Beautifully written and thought-provoking . . . It will strike a responsive chord in all men of goodwill.
Superb . . . The comparisons of his debut to the books of James Baldwin and Faulkner are justified.
Simple, timeless, mythic . . . an astounding achievement . . . still relevant and powerful today.
Set to become a publishing sensation.
Black America's lost literary masterpiece.
Astounding . . . Absolutely essential reading.
This fierce and brilliant novel is written with sympathy as well as sorrow. It's a myth packed with real-world resonance.
Wonderful . . . full of dazzling moments of social and psychological observation that jump from the page as if they were written yesterday.
A Different Drummer is a revelation. A story so vividly alive I closed the book a different person from the one who opened it. A vital classic of literature.
Brilliant . . . The rare first novel that makes future ones seem both inevitable and exciting.
Despite the novel being over 50 years old it feels as relevant as ever, sitting alongside the likes of The Good Immigrant, Slay in Your Lane and Becoming.
Kelley blended fantasy and fact to construct an alternative world whose sweep and complexity drew comparisons to James Joyce and William Faulkner.
This first novel just perhaps could play a part in changing our history.
[A] masterpiece . . . Kelley wrote intricate novels that identified with the rejection of dominant social orders.
An exceptionally powerful and elegant first novel.
Superbly written . . . a stunning work.
A rare first novel: dynamic, imaginative, and accomplished . . . It is a custom to say of first novels that they 'show promise.' But we need not say that of this one. It shows accomplishment; it shows fulfillment.
So brilliant is this initial novel that one must consider Mr. Kelley for tentative future placement among the paragons of American letters.
Beautifully written and thought-provoking . . . It will strike a responsive chord in all men of goodwill.
Superb . . . The comparisons of his debut to the books of James Baldwin and Faulkner are justified.