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I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou

From Shelf: Interesting Lives

One of America's most important classics, the first and best loved volume of Maya Angelou's bestselling seven-volume autobiography

The international classic and bestseller, Maya Angelou's memoir paints a portrait of 'a brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' (BARACK OBAMA).'I write about being a Black American woman, however, I am always talking about what it's like to be a human being. This is how we are, what makes us laugh, and this is how we fall and how we somehow, amazingly, stand up again' Maya AngelouIn this first volume of her seven books of autobiography, Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her childhood with her grandmother in the American south of the 1930s. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination, violence and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity' JAMES BALDWIN'She moved through the world with unshakeable calm, confidence and a fierce grace . . . She will always be the rainbow in my clouds' OPRAH WINFREY'She was important in so many ways. She launched African American women writing in the United States. She was generous to a fault. She had nineteen talents - used ten. And was a real original. There is no duplicate' TONI MORRISON

Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
320
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN:
9780860685111
Published Date:
26/1/1984
Dimensions:
196mm x 128mm x 26mm
Weight:
252g
Category:
Autobiography: general

RRP: £9.99

Format: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9780860685111

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