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Language: English
Published by Doubleday (edition First Edition), 1976
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The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.
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- Title
- Roots
- Author
- Haley, Alex
- Publisher
- Doubleday (edition First Edition)
- Publication year
- 1976
- Condition
- Fair
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0385037872
- ISBN 13
- 9780385037877
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Series
- Book 1 of 2: Deep Earth Collections
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
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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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