num_pages: 205
description: Set in a mythical backwater Southern town, A Different Drummer is the extraordinary story of Tucker Caliban, a quiet, determined descendant of an African chief who for no apparent reason destroys his farm and heads for parts unknown--setting off a mass exodus of the state's entire Black population.Nearly three decades offer its first publication, A Different Drummer remains one of the most trenchant, imaginative, and hard-hitting works of fiction to come out of the bitter struggle for African-American civil rights.
language: English
title: A Different Drummer
titlecomplete: A Different Drummer
genres: Fiction, African American, 20th Century, Classics, The United States Of America, Race, Historical, American, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 2450
awards: awardedAt: -220896000000
name: Rosenthal Family Foundation Award
publisher: Anchor