Roots
by HALEY, Alex
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- first
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
The story of Kunta Kinte, an African, captured as an adolescent, sold into slavery, transported to North America; following his life and the lives of his descendants in the United States down to Haley. Haley received a Pulitzer Prize for his book. Roots was a television miniseries airing over eight consecutive nights in January 1977 and won several major awards. It spawned sequels including a two-hour made-for-TV movie: Roots: The Gift and a fourteen-hour sequel, Roots: The Next Generations, airing in 1979. A reboot based on the original series was made in 2016.
Synopsis
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. Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1976.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 52557
- Title
- Roots
- Author
- HALEY, Alex
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First U.K. Edition
- Publisher
- Hutchinson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1977
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; African-Americana;
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