Dancers on the Shore
Book description
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.…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Dancers on the Shore as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book to me into a world of middle-class Black families around the 1950s. I hadn't seen that portrayed too many times before.
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