A Different Drummer [Review Copy]
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- Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1962
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1962. First Edition. First Printing, a Review Copy, with the publisher's typed slip laid in. Octavo (21.5cm); black pebbled boards and pale grey cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [xii],223,[5]pp. Dustjacket is price-clipped, lightly edgeworn, with just a hint of sunning to spine; Near Fine.
An attractive copy of the New York author's first novel, an exploration of the Great Migration, which addresses the hypothesis of what might happen if all the black people left, leaving an all-white southern state of the Union. "Tucker Caliban and his ancestors are heroes of a story set in a mythical state in the deep South. Beginning with the life of an African slave in the United States, it ends with all of the black population leaving that state in 1957, making it the only state without one black person in residence. Told as a fine literary parable, the story comes so close to reality as to fill all the requirements of the SF of social criticism in the form of the "warning story" (Barron, Anatomy of Wonder 3-226). In 1963 it earned the Rosenthal Foundation Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the John Hay Whitney Foundation Award. See AANB, Vol.5, p.51. 81388.
An attractive copy of the New York author's first novel, an exploration of the Great Migration, which addresses the hypothesis of what might happen if all the black people left, leaving an all-white southern state of the Union. "Tucker Caliban and his ancestors are heroes of a story set in a mythical state in the deep South. Beginning with the life of an African slave in the United States, it ends with all of the black population leaving that state in 1957, making it the only state without one black person in residence. Told as a fine literary parable, the story comes so close to reality as to fill all the requirements of the SF of social criticism in the form of the "warning story" (Barron, Anatomy of Wonder 3-226). In 1963 it earned the Rosenthal Foundation Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the John Hay Whitney Foundation Award. See AANB, Vol.5, p.51. 81388.