Category: Adults, General Fiction, Literature, Novel
Language: EnglishKeywords: African American Satire
Written by William Melvin Kelley
Read by Jay Smooth
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged
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 stateâs 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.
Audio Release Date:
August 27 2019
6 hrs and 35 mins
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 stateâs 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.
Audio Release Date:
August 27 2019
6 hrs and 35 mins