Roots

Informationen zum Autor Alex Haley Klappentext Alex Haley taught himself to write during a twenty-year stint in the US Coast Guard. He became its first Chief Journalist, a position he held until he retired in 1959 to become a magazine writer and interviewer. His first book was The Autobiography of Malcolm X , after which he spent twelve years researching and writing Roots, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Alex Haley died in Seattle, Washington in 1992. Zusammenfassung Now a major BBC drama starring Forest Whitaker, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Laurence FishburneTracing 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.

Product details

• Authors: Alex Haley, Haley Alex
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 21.01.1994
• EAN: 9780099362814
• ISBN: 978-0-09-936281-4
• No. of pages: 704
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 36 mm
• Series: Vintage Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Biographical, FICTION / Literary, Narrative theme: Social issues, Relating to African American people, Modern and contemporary fiction, Biographical fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), FICTION / African American & Black / Historical, Early 19th century c 1800 to c 1850, Later 18th century c 1750 to c 1799