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William Melvin Kelley's final work, a Joycean, Rabelaisian romp in which he brings back some of his most memorable characters in a novel of three intertwining stories.

„Eine bewegende, schmerzhafte und grandiose Leseerfahrung." The New York Times Book Review Die US-Südstaaten in den sechziger Jahren. Als Ludlow Washington fünf Jahre alt ist, geben ihn seine Eltern in ein Heim für blinde schwarze Kinder. Ludlow versteht nicht, warum er und die anderen von den weißen Erziehern so diskriminiert werden - „Hautfarbe" ist für den blinden Jungen etwas Unvorstellbares. Unterrichtet werden die Kinder nur in Musik, d...

A searing, provocative satire by one of the most important African-American novelists of the twentieth century that lays bare the abiding racism and the legacy of slavery on the psyche of white America.

Der vergessene Gigant der amerikanischen Literatur" The New Yorker Die kleine Stadt Sutton im Nirgendwo der Südstaaten. An einem Nachmittag im Juni 1957 streut der schwarze Farmer Tucker Caliban Salz auf seine Felder, tötet sein Vieh, brennt sein Haus nieder und macht sich auf den Weg in Richtung Norden. Ihm folgt die gesamte schwarze Bevölkerung des Ortes. William Melvin Kelleys wiederentdecktes Meisterwerk "Ein anderer Takt" ist eines der s...

William Melvin Kelley's final work, a Joycean, Rabelaisian romp in which he brings back some of his most memorable characters in a novel of three intertwining stories.Ride on out with Rab and Turt, two o'New Afriqueque's toughfast, ruefast Texnosass Arangers, as they battle Chief Pugmichillo and ricecure Mr. Charcarl Walker-Rider.Cut in on Carlyle Bedlowe, wrecker of marriage, saver of souls.Or just along with Chig Dunford, product of Harlem a...

The first and only short story collection by William Melvin Kelley, author of A Different Drummer, and the source from which he drew inspiration for his subsequent novels.Originally published in 1964, this collection of sixteen stories includes two linked sets of stories about the Bedlow and Dunford families. They represent the earliest work of William Melvin Kelley and provided a rich source of stories and characters who were to fill out his ...

A searing, provocative satire by one of the most important African-American novelists of the twentieth century that lays bare the abiding racism and the legacy of slavery on the psyche of white America.Mitchell Pierce is a well-off New York ad executive whose marriage is falling apart. He no longer feels any passion for his pregnant wife, Tam, and his toddler son, Jake, has become a disappointment. He feels trapped in an unrewarding and lovele...

One of the great jazz novels of any era, A Drop of Patience tells the story of a blind horn player's journey through the themes of race, blindness, and music.At the age of five, Ludlow Washington is given up by his parents to a brutal white-run state institution for blind African American children, where everyone is taught music--the only trade by which they are expected to make a living. Ludlow is a prodigy on the horn and at fifteen is "purc...

Born in New York in 1937, William Melvin Kelley was an African-American writer known for his satirical explorations of race relations in America. He was just twenty-four years old when his debut novel, A Different Drummer, was first published in 1962, earning him critical comparisons to William Faulkner and James Baldwin. Dancers on the Shore, published in 1964, is his first collection of short stories, appearing between the publications of hi...

Born in New York in 1937, William Melvin Kelley was an African-American writer known for his satirical explorations of race relations in America. He was just twenty-four years old when his debut novel, A Different Drummer, was first published in 1962, earning him critical comparisons to William Faulkner and James Baldwin. A Drop Of Patience, first published in 1965, is his second novel. Considered part of the Black Arts Movement, Kelley was in...

Rediscovered African American literary classic presenting the impact and repercussions of systemic oppression, with two more Kelley books set to be reissued by Riverrun in 2019.

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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 ...