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Children Are Diamonds: An African Apocalypse
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Children Are Diamonds: An African Apocalypse Hardcover - 2013 - 1st Edition

by Hoagland, Edward

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Arcade Publishing, 2013. Hardcover. Like New. Former library book; Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title Children Are Diamonds: An African Apocalypse
  • Author Hoagland, Edward
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition New
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Arcade Publishing, New York
  • Date 2013
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Dust Cover, Illustrated, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G161145834XI2N10
  • ISBN 9781611458343 / 161145834X
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.44 x 0.93 in (23.11 x 16.36 x 2.36 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: East Africa
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Topical: Coming of Age
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects Americans - Kenya, Child soldiers - Africa
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013013603
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Booklist, 06/01/2013, Page 28
  • Kirkus Reviews, 05/15/2013, Page 0
  • New York Times Book Review, 07/21/2013, Page 10
  • NY Times Notable Bks of Year, 12/08/2013, Page 26
  • Outside, 08/01/2013, Page 24

About the author

Edward Hoagland: Edward Hoagland has written more than twenty books in sixty years, including travel memoirs (Alaskan Travels--Arcade 2012, 2013), essay collections, and novels. He worked in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus while attending Harvard, and later traveled the world from Yemen to Antarctica to Assam, writing for national magazines such as Harper's and Esquire. He has received numerous literary awards, and taught at ten colleges and universities. A native New Yorker, he now divides his time between Martha's Vineyard and a farmhouse in the mountains of northern Vermont.