Roots

Alex Haley

ISBN 10: 0440174643 / ISBN 13: 9780440174646

Verlag: Dell Publishing, 1980

Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers G0440174643I5N00

Inhaltsangabe:

After eleven years of research to uncover the facts of his heritage, Haley shares the saga of an American black family that extends from his ancestor Kunta Kinte, an African brought to mid-eighteenth-century America as a slave, to himself

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: ALEX HALEY taught himself to write during a twenty year career in the U.S. Coast Guard. After retiring, he worked as a freelance magazine writer. His first book was The Autobiography of Malcom X, on which he was collaborator and editor.  ROOTS: The Saga of An American Family was his second book, for which he was awarded special recognition from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award committees. He also wrote A Different Kind of Christmas, available from Random House Value Publishing, and Queen, a sequel to ROOTS. Haley died in 1992.


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Bibliografische Details

Titel: Roots
Verlag: Dell Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum: 1980
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Fair
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket
Auflage: 3. Auflage