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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
by Ishmael Beah
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0374105235
- ISBN 13
- 9780374105235
- Seller
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Arlington, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Sarah Crichton Books, February 2007. Hardcover. First Edition (stated), later printing. Fine book in a Fine Jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Jacket clean and bright. Not from a library. Not clipped. 229 pages.
In A Long Way Gone Beah tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. This is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty.
In A Long Way Gone Beah tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. This is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty.
Synopsis
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier is a book written by Ishmael Beah in 2007 about his experiences as a boy soldier.
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- Bookseller
- Books of the World
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000002435
- Title
- A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
- Author
- Ishmael Beah
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0374105235
- ISBN 13
- 9780374105235
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Sarah Crichton Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- February 2007
- Pages
- 229
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- autobiography, biography, memoir, child, children, juvenile, kids, adolescents, teens, history, child soldier, child soldiers, civil war, Sierra Leone, West Africa
- Bookseller catalogs
- Africa; Children; Military and Defense; Sierra Leone; Biographies;
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