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22%OFFMaya Angelou - Gather Together in My Name - 9781844085026 - V9781844085026
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Gather Together in My Name

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Description for Gather Together in My Name Paperback. The second title in Maya Angelou's bestselling autobiography is reissued in a new look to coincide with the publication of her new book Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 176.

The sequel to I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS

'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' Barack Obama

Maya Angelou's volumes of autobiography 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 sequel to her bestselling I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou is a young mother in California, unemployed, embarking on brief affairs and transient jobs in shops and night-clubs, turning to prostitution and the world of narcotics. Maya Angelou powerfully captures the struggles and triumphs of her passionate life with dignity, wisdom, humour and humanity.

'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
1985
Condition
New
Weight
182g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844085026
SKU
V9781844085026
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-98

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 Gather Together in My Name
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
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 This is the story of a great heroine who knows the meaning of a struggle and never loses her pride or dignity. Indeed, her story makes me proud of the human race
John Oliver Killens Engrossing and vital, rich and funny and wise . . . Angelou writes like a song, and like the truth
New York Times Book Review
Angelou's stature as a writer, a woman, a black, grows, walks tall
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