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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
by Beah, Ishmael
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0374105235
- ISBN 13
- 9780374105235
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. Reprint. Later printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 229 p. Map. This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300, 000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived. In "A Long Way Gone", Beah, now twenty-five years old, tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. This is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty.
Synopsis
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier is a book written by Ishmael Beah in 2007 about his experiences as a boy soldier.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 65848
- Title
- A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
- Author
- Beah, Ishmael
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint. Later printing
- ISBN 10
- 0374105235
- ISBN 13
- 9780374105235
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- Boy Soldiers, UNICEF, Rehabilitation, Humasn RIghts, Civil War, Guerrilla War, Sectarian Violence
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.