A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
by Ishmael Beah
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1553652991
- ISBN 13
- 9781553652991
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About This Item
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Bookstore label on flypage otherwise unmarked. This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived. In A Long Way Gone, Beah, now twenty-five years old, 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
- MAD HATTER BOOKSTORE (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007202
- Title
- A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
- Author
- Ishmael Beah
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1553652991
- ISBN 13
- 9781553652991
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- Vancouver, Bc, Canada
- Date Published
- 2007
- Pages
- 256
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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