Roots

Description

Product ID:	9780099362814
Product Form:	Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:	GB
Title:	Roots
Authors:	Author: Alex Haley
Page Count:	704
Subjects:	Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Historical fiction, Historical fiction
Description:	Select Guide Rating Now a major BBC drama starring Forest Whitaker, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Laurence FishburneTracing his ancestry through six generations â€“ slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lawyers and architects â€“ back to Africa, Alex Haley discovered a sixteen-year-old youth, Kunta Kinte. Now a major BBC drama starring Forest Whitaker, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Laurence Fishburne Tracing his ancestry through six generations – slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lawyers and architects – back to Africa, Alex Haley discovered a sixteen-year-old youth, Kunta Kinte. It was this young man, who had been torn from his homeland and in torment and anguish brought to the slave markets of the New World, who held the key to Haley''s deep and distant past. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award
Imprint Name:	Vintage
Publisher Name:	Vintage Publishing
Country of Publication:	GB
Publishing Date:	1994-01-21

Weight	512 g
Dimensions	198 × 129 × 37 mm