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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
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Description for I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Paperback. One of America's most important classics, the first and best loved volume of Maya Angelou's bestselling seven-volume autobiography Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 248.
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 Angelou
In 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. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Virago
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780860685111
SKU
V9780860685111
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 3 to 5 working days
Ref
99-19
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', ... Read more
Reviews for I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman
President Barack Obama The poems and stories she wrote . . . were gifts of wisdom and wit, courage and grace
President Bill Clinton She moved through the world with unshakeable calm, confidence and a fierce grace . . . She will always be the rainbow in ... Read more
President Barack Obama The poems and stories she wrote . . . were gifts of wisdom and wit, courage and grace
President Bill Clinton She moved through the world with unshakeable calm, confidence and a fierce grace . . . She will always be the rainbow in ... Read more