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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 818.54092
EAN: 9780345514400
ISBN: 0345514408
Label: Ballantine Books
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: April 21, 2009
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Studio: Ballantine Books
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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. Marvelously told, with Angelou's "gift for language and observation," this "remarkable autobiography by an equally remarkable black woman from Arkansas captures, indelibly, a world of which most Americans are shamefully ignorant."
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Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age–and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns about love for herself and the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned.
Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a modern American classic that will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read.
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We received the book within the time stated and the book was in like new condition. Will gladly order from this source again.
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Great book...sometimes a little difficult to stay with her. But, WOW, what an awesome woman!
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I don't know the reviews for this book yet. What I'm saying is this book is a required reading for my daughter. I saw the movie made from this book when I was young, and I told my daughter that the books that movies are made form are far more better and fill in blanks. So, she is preparing to read it and I'm sure that after she does, I will need to but her the other books in this series.
But, this is the autobiography of Maya Angelou, one should know that this is a must read. The movie ... Read More
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I was very pleased with this book purchase. So much that I have ordered another Maya Angelou book.
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First as to the Maya Angelou phenomenon:
Why did a former Methodist school, Wake Forest University allow a former prostitute/Madame to become a tenured Professor? Two words: African-American. Do you think Wake Forest would have hired The DC Madame or Marilyn Chambers (two white sex workers) to become a tenured professor? Heck No. There is a total double standard here. No former sex worker should be honored with a Professorship at a college or University.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 818.54092
EAN: 9780345514400
ISBN: 0345514408
Label: Ballantine Books
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: April 21, 2009
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Studio: Ballantine Books