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Dunfords Travels Everywheres

William Melvin Kelley

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 schools on the circular voyage of self-discovery that takes him from Europe's Café of One Hand to Harlem's Jack O'Gee's Golden Grouse Bar & Restaurant.

Beginning on an August Sunday in one of Europe's strangest cities Dunfords Travels Everywheres but always returns back to the same point-the "Begending"-where Mr. Charcarl's dream becomes Chig Dunford's reality.

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  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : NOV 11, 2021
  • Imprint : riverrun
  • Page Extent : 288
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781529412185
  • Price : INR 750
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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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