A Different Drummer
William Melvin Kelley. Anchor Books, $14.95 (240pp) ISBN 978-0-385-41390-9
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. (June)
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Reviewed on: 05/01/1990
Genre: Fiction
Paperback - 978-0-385-01079-5