Dunfords Travels Everywheres
$44.21
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
22 February 2022
Summary
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 and private sch…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529412185 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529412188 |
| Author: | William Melvin Kelley |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | riverrun |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 22 February 2022 |
| Weight: | 280g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 130mm x 196mm |
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Critics Review
‘William Melvin Kelley … brought a fresh, experimental voice to black fiction in novels and stories that used recurring characters to explore race relations and racial identity in the United States’ William Grimes, The New York Times
William Melvin Kelley
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 2014 officially credited by the Oxford English Dictionary with coining the political term ‘woke,’ in a 1962 New York Times article entitled ‘If You’re Woke You Dig It’. He died in February of 2017, aged 79.
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