Dancers on the Shore by Kelley, William Melvin

Dancers on the Shore (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781984899354)

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Dancers on the Shore by Kelley, William Melvin

Dancers on the Shore

$16.00
Dancers on the Shore by Kelley, William Melvin

Dancers on the Shore

$16.00
Format: Paperback
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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 three linked sets of stories about the Carey, 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 later novels.

Spanning generations from the Deep South during Reconstruction to New York City in the 1960s, these insightful stories depict African American families--their struggles, their heartbreak, and their love.

Author: William Melvin Kelley
ISBN-10: 198489935X
ISBN-13: 9781984899354
Publisher: Anchor Books
Language: English
Published: 09/29/2020
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.70d
By William Melvin Kelley
By William Melvin Kelley
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WILLIAM MELVIN KELLEY was born in New York City in 1937 and attended the Fieldston School and Harvard. The author of four novels and a short story collection, he was a writer in residence at the State University of New York at Geneseo and taught at The New School and Sarah Lawrence College. He was awarded the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for lifetime achievement and the Dana Reed Prize for creative writing. He died in 2017. In 2014, Kelley was 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."

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