Word: haleys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...AUTUMN of the Patriarch, the theme is once again solitude, this time that of the dictator of a mythical Latin American nation, who simply will not die: he measures his age by the appearances of Haley's Comet. In fact, he is so reclusive, old and omnipotent that the stages of his decline loom like the death...
...Roots, Haley...
NONFICTION 1-Roots, Haley (1) 2-Passages, Sheeny (2) 3-Your Erroneous Zones, Dyer (4) 4-The Right and the Power, Jaworski (3) 5-Adolf Hitler, Toland (5) 6-The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank, Bombeck (7) 7-Blind Ambition, Deon (6) 8-Blood and Money, Thompson (8) 9-The Hite Report, Hite 10-To Jerusalem and Back, Bellow
Starting with fragmentary accounts of an African slave ancestor and a few African words which had been passed down to him through generations of family storytelling, Haley traced his lineage to a village in Gambia...
During this search, Haley made several trips to Africa and eventually interviewed a village story teller who described the disappearance of Haley's African ancestor. The ancestor had been kidnapped by slave traders in the middle of the 19th century...