Roots: The Saga of an American Family

Haley, Alex

ISBN 10: 0385037872 / ISBN 13: 9780385037877

Editore: Doubleday, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1976

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Gold boards with black spine and gold lettering on spine. Binding is tight and square. Wear to spine ends and corner tips of boards. Signed by Alex Haley on the publication page. First edition. Pages are clean throughout. The dust jacket has original pricing intact, light surface soiling and chipping, fraying and wear to edges. The dust jacket is now within a protective mylar sleeve. Codice articolo 001735np

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Titolo: Roots: The Saga of an American Family

Casa editrice: Doubleday, New York, New York, U.S.A.

Data di pubblicazione: 1976

Legatura: Hardcover

Condizione: Very Good

Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good

Edizione: 1st Edition

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Riassunto:

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

L'autore:

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.