Mama Flora's Family - Brossura

Haley, Alex; Stevens, David

Brossura

ISBN 10: 044023543X ISBN 13: 9780440235439

Casa editrice: Dell Pub Co, 1999

Riassunto

Forced to raise her family by herself after her husband is killed by white landholders, Mama Flora watches her daughter Ruthana travel to Africa in search of her soul, while her son Willie's children seek solace in drugs and the Black Power movement. Reprint.

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Recensione:

"Heartwarming...affecting...Mama Flora herself is as memorable a character as Roots' Kunta Kinte."
--Kirkus Reviews

"Powerful and moving."
--The Boston Globe

L'autore:

Alex Haley is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece Roots. With Malcolm X, he coauthored the Autobiography of Malcom X. He died in February 1992.

David Stevens is an Oscar-nominated screenwriter who coauthored Breaker Morant and directed the Emmy Award-winning miniseries A Town Like Alice. He has written several other miniseries, including Merlin, and his off-Broadway play The Sum of Us was made into a movie. He worked extensively with Alex Haley on the screenplay Queen, and after Alex Haley died, he completed the unfinished book.

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• Editore: Dell Pub Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 044023543X
• ISBN 13: 9780440235439
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero di pagine: 454