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A Different Drummer

by William Melvin Kelley
Jay Smooth
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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.

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  • Release date

    August 27, 2019

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780593170793
      • File size: 189823 KB
      • Duration: 06:35:27

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • Lexile® Measure: 890
    • Text Difficulty: 4-5

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 1, 1990
      First published some 30 years ago, this is the story of Tucker Caliban, a black Southerner who one day salts his fields, burns down his house, kills his livestock and, with his wife and child, sets off a mass exodus of his mythical state's entire black population.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      A fascinating premise is not fully worked out in this audiobook. What happens when the entire African-American population of a Southern state decides to move away? This story focuses more on the moment of departure than on the long-term consequences or the reason for the abrupt, unanimous decision to leave. The story is not helped much by narrator Jay Smooth. His voice is, appropriately, smooth, but he makes most of the characters sound the same, which is a problem in an audiobook with so many different viewpoints. Southern voices and accents are diverse, and Smooth could have increased the clarity of the text by making use of that variety. D.M.H. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

Levels

  • Lexile® Measure:890
  • Text Difficulty:4-5

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