Roots / Alex Haley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haley, Alex, author.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Haley, Alex--Family--Fiction.

Haley, Alex.

Haley family--Fiction.

Haley family.

Kinte family--Fiction.

Kinte family.

African Americans--Fiction.

African Americans.

Families.

African American families--Fiction.

African American families.

Slavery--United States--Fiction.

Slavery.

United States.

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy).

Local Subjects:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy).

Genre:

Fiction.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

viii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 587 pages, 3 unnumbered pages. ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Garden City, New York : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976.

Summary:

This "bold . . . extraordinary . . . blockbuster . . ". (Newsweek) 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.

Notes:

"The Saga of an American Family"--Dust jacket.

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

"Jacket design by Al Nagy. Back jacket photo by Alex Gotfryd."

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.

Banks Collection copy has book reviews from the New York Times and Washington Post in addition to newspaper stories about a law suit and success of the television series laid in.

ISBN:

0385037872 :

OCLC:

62192859