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All God´s Children Need Travelling Shoes

Maya Angelou

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Description for All God´s Children Need Travelling Shoes Paperback. * The fifth volume in Maya Angelou's bestselling autobiography is reissued in a new look to coincide with the publication of her new book Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 190.

A memoir about home and belonging, from the author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS

'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMA

Maya Angelou's five volumes of autobiography, beginning with I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS, are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. In the fifth volume, Maya Angelou emigrates to Ghana only to discover that 'you can't go home again' but she comes to a new awareness of love and friendship, civil rights and slavery - and the myth of mother Africa.

'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

Product Details

Publisher

Little, Brown Book Group

Format

Paperback

Publication date

1987

Condition

New

Weight

195g

Number of Pages

240

Place of Publication

London, United Kingdom

ISBN

9781844085057

SKU

V9781844085057

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99-4

About Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou was one of the world's most important writers and activists. Born 4 April 1928, she lived and chronicled an extraordinary life: rising from poverty, violence and racism, she became a renowned author, memoirist, poet, playwright, civil rights' activist - working with Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. She wrote and performed a poem, 'On the Pulse of Morning', for President Clinton on his inauguration. She was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama and was honoured by more than seventy universities throughout the world. She first thrilled the world with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969). This was followed by six volumes of autobiography, the seventh and final volume, Mom & Me & Mom, published in 2013. She wrote three collections of essays; many volumes of poetry, including His Day is Done, a tribute to Nelson Mandela; and two cookbooks. She had a lifetime appointment as Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University of North Carolina. She died in 2014.

Reviews for All God´s Children Need Travelling Shoes

A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman The poems and stories she wrote . . . were gifts of wisdom and wit, courage and grace She moved through the world with unshakeable calm, confidence and a fierce grace . . . She will always be the rainbow in my clouds 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 She continues with all the freshness and warmth of her earlier books
Evening Standard
Maya Angelou has a fiercely uncompromising spirit
Daily Telegraph
Told with the humorous, unsentimental wisdom that has gained Maya Angelou such a devoted following
Sunday Times
Maya Angelou has an amazing ability to take readers into her personal maze and lead them out again feeling refreshed and even jubilant
Guardian
She continues with all the freshness and warmth of her earlier book s' EVENING STANDARD
'Maya Angelou has an amazing ability to take readers into her personal maze and lead them out again feeling refreshed and even jubilant’
GUARDIAN
'Maya Angelou has a fiercely uncompromising spirit’
DAILY TELEGRAPH
'Told with the humorous, unsentimental wisdom that has gained Maya Angelou such a devoted following’
SUNDAY TIMES

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