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.
Science Fiction- Michael was quite young when he discovered that some of his playmates bled if they cut themselves, and some didn’t. For a long time, he didn’t think about it.nor did it seem strange to see zeppelins being attacked by jet fighters above London’s force field, or glimpse queen victoria walking with Winston Churchill in the mall. Not at first. But later he thought about these things-he couldn’t help it. The world was real, and yet unreal. It was all desperately worrying. So Michael and his friends formed a society to investigate the world around them. Despite the terrible things they discovered, things that made some of them insane, they never actually guessed the truth about the overman culture. Until Mr. Shakespeare told them.
Faith Madison is the very picture of a sophisticated New Yrker. Slim, blonde, stylish and married to a successful merchant banker, she has a life many would envy. But Faith hs overcome a childhood marred by tragedy, and has carried within herself a secret she can divulge to no one. The death of her stepfather sets off a journey of change and revelation. At the fneral, an old friend re-enters Faith's life. -- back cover