Roots

Haley, Alex

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ISBN 10: 0385037872 ISBN 13: 9780385037877
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The monumental bestseller! Alex Haley recaptures his family's history in this drama of eighteenth-century slave Kunta Kinte and his descendants.

About the Author: 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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Title: Roots
Publisher: Doubleday
Publication Date: 1976
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hardcover. 8vo 688pp. Alex Haley's cultural phenomenon novel blending extensive archival research and fiction to describe the life of Kunta Kinte, an 18th century man captured in Africa as an adolescent, then sold into slavery and shipped to North America. Follows his life and the lives of his descendants down to Haley himself and was adapted into a hugely popular TV miniseries of the same name in 1977. #00016. Book VG: spine slightly cocked, a little toning on endpapers, binding otherwise tight, text clean. DJ VG: faded/tanned, aged, some signs of scuffing on corners and spine, NOT clipped. Seller Inventory # 83

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