Roots

Name: Roots
Rating: 4.636363636363637 (22 reviews)
Author: Alex Haley
ISBN: 9780440174646

by Alex Haley

4.6

(22 ratings)

618 pages1977Dell Publishing CompanyISBN 9780440174646

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About this book

It begins with a birth in 1750, in an African village; it ends seven generations later at the Arkansas funeral of a black professor whose children are a teacher, a Navy architect, an assistant director of the U.S. Information Agency, and an author. The author is Alex Haley. This magnificent book is his.

Publication Details

Publisher: Dell Publishing Company
Published: 1977
Pages: 618
ISBN: 9780440174646
Language: en

About Alex Haley

American writer and author of the popular 1970s book *Roots* which was adapted into a record setting TV mini-series. "The giving and getting, the sense of belonging and contributing to something larger than yourself, to something that began before you were born and will go on after you die, can make it possible for you to accept life in a way that makes you wish the whole world could realize how easy it is to feel as you do, and wonder why they don’t. That’s what having roots—and writing Roots—has done for me. I pray that reading it—and then reaching out for their families to join in a search of their own—will do the same for everyone." ~ Alex Haley (A Candid Conversation With Murray Fisher, January 1977)