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An edition of Roots (1976)

Roots

1st ed.
  • 4.50 ·
  • 10 Ratings
  • 214 Want to read
  • 11 Currently reading
  • 16 Have read
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Publisher
Doubleday
Language
English
Pages
688

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Roots is a novel written by Alex Haley and published in 1976. It portrays the story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century African, captured as an adolescent and sold into slavery in the United States, and follows his life and the lives of his alleged descendants in the U.S. down to Haley. The release of the novel, combined with its hugely popular television adaptation, Roots (1977), led to a cultural sensation in the United States. The novel spent 46 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller List, including 22 weeks in that list’s top spot. The last seven chapters of the novel were later adapted in the form of a second mini-series, Roots: The Next Generations, in 1979.

The book sold over one million copies in the first year, and the miniseries was watched by an astonishing 130 million people. It also won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.

Roots opened up the minds of Americans of all colors and faiths to one of the darkest and most painful parts of America’s past, and we continue to feel its reverberations today.

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1976, Dell
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Roots
1976, Doubleday
in English - 1st ed.

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Garden City, N.Y

Edition Notes

"A condensed version of a portion of this work first appeared in Reader's digest."

Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
929/.2/0973
Library of Congress
E185.97.H24 A33

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 688 p. ;
Number of pages
688

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL5296263M
Internet Archive
rootshalerich
ISBN 10
0385037872
LCCN
72076164
OCLC/WorldCat
2188350
Library Thing
825
Goodreads
777839

First Sentence

"Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a manchild was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte."

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