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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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Maya Angelou
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Free shipping Australia wide Ships from UK supplier | Rating: | | | Format: | Paperback, 320 pages | | Published In: | United Kingdom, 26 January 1984 |
In this first of five volumes of autobiography, poet Maya Angelou recounts a youth filled with disappointment, frustration, tragedy, and finally hard-won independence. Sent at a young age to live with her grandmother in Arkansas, Angelou learned a great deal from this exceptional woman and the tightly-knit black community there. These very lessons carried her throughout the hardships she endured later in life, including a tragic occurrence while visiting her mother in St. Louis and her formative years spent in California - where an unwanted pregnancy changed her life forever. |
About the AuthorMaya Angelou has been waitress, singer, actress, dancer, activist, filmmaker, writer and mother. As well as her autobiography she has written several volumes of poetry. She now has a life-time appointment as Reynolds Professor at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. Prizes* One of America's most important classics, the first and best loved volume of Maya Angelou's bestselling six-volume autobiography is reissued in a new look to coincide with the publication of Celebrations ReviewsIf your originals of these two popular titles (LJ 9/1/78, LJ 3/15/70, respectively) have seen better days, these reprints offer affordable, high-quality replacements. 'I know that not since the days of my childhood, when people in books were more real than the people one saw every day, have I found myself more moved' James Baldwin
| Publisher: | Virago Press Ltd | | ISBN: | 086068511X |
| EAN: | 9780860685111 | | Dimensions: | 19.0 x 12.0 x 2.0 centimeters (0.26 kg) |
| Age Range: |
15+ years |
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