# A Different Drummer

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- Book: [A Different Drummer](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-melvin-kelley/a-different-drummer) ([A Different Drummer.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-melvin-kelley/a-different-drummer.md))
- Authors: [William Melvin Kelley](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-melvin-kelley)
- Publisher: anchor
- ISBN: 978-03-8541-390-9
- Pages: 224
- Published: 1990-05-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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...