Search
      Tap cover to enlarge

      A Different Drummer

      by William Melvin Kelley
      Published
      Jun 2019
      Main Genre
      Literary Literary
      Rating
      Pages
      221
      Buy on Amazon Book

      About This Book

      The stunning, thought-provoking first novel by a "lost giant of American literature" (The New Yorker)

      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.

      Genres & Themes

      Genres

      General Fiction

      Subgenres

      Literary

      Buy This Book

      Amazon Paperback / Kindle Barnes & Noble Paperback / Nook Apple Books eBook Kobo eBook Audible Audiobook

      Formats & Editions

      Browse the different covers, formats, and publication history for this title.

      Paperback

      Paperback edition cover
      Paperback
      Nov 2018 Quercus Publishing ISBN 1787478033
      Buy

      eBook

      eBook edition cover
      eBook
      First Edition Jun 2019 Knopf ISBN 1984899309
      Buy
      eBook edition cover
      eBook
      Jun 2019 riverrun ISBN 1787478025
      Buy
      eBook edition cover
      eBook
      Jun 2019 Anchor ISBN B07SSQ47MS
      Buy

      Audio

      Audio edition cover
      Audible
      Aug 2019 Random House Audio ISBN B07WFQTMFV
      Buy