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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Student's Virago) Book

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." Read More

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  • Product Description

    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 â??powhitetrash.â? At eight years old and back at her motherâ??s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her ageâ??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 (â??I met and fell in love with William Shakespeareâ?) 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.

  • 0091824273
  • 9780091824273
  • Maya Angelou
  • 1 December 1988
  • Nelson Thornes Ltd
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 308
  • New Ed
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