Roots (Dell Book) - Softcover

Haley, Alex

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0440174643 ISBN 13: 9780440174646

Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1980

Synopsis

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

About this title

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.


From the Hardcover edition.

From the Inside Flap

It begins with a birth in 1750, in an African village; it ends seven generations later at the Arkansas funeral of a black professor whose children are a teacher, a Navy architect, an assistant director of the U.S. Information Agency, and an author. The author is Alex Haley. This magnificent book is his.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0440174643
• ISBN 13: 9780440174646
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 729