Lawrence Hill’s award-winning novel is a major television miniseries airing on BET Networks. The Book of Negroes (based on the novel Someone Knows My Name) will be BET’s first miniseries. The star-studded production includes lead actress Aunjanue Ellis (Ray, The Help), Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr. (Jerry Maguire, A Few Good Men), Oscar and Emmy winner Louis Gossett Jr. (A Raisin in the Sun, Boardwalk Empire), and features Lyriq Bent (Rookie Blue), Jane Alexander (The Cider House Rules), and Ben Chaplin (The Thin Red Line). Director and co-writer Clement Virgo is a feature film and television director (The Wire) who also serves as producer with executive producer Damon D’Oliveira (What We Have). In this “transporting” (Entertainment Weekly) and “heart-stopping” (Washington Post) work, Aminata Diallo, one of the strongest women characters in contemporary fiction, is kidnapped from Africa as a child and sold as a slave in South Carolina. Fleeing to Canada after the Revolutionary War, she escapes to attempt a new life in freedom.
The Book of Negroes: A Novel (Movie Tie-in Editions)
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Author: Hill, Lawrence
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780393351392
Details:
Author: Hill, Lawrence
Brand: W W Norton Company
Edition: Movie Tie-in
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 512
Release Date: 12-01-2015
Part Number: 0393351394
Package Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.7 x 1.5 inches Languages: English
EAN: 9780393351392
