A song flung up to heaven / Maya Angelou.
By: Angelou, Maya
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Publisher: London : Virago Press, 2002Description: 212 p. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 1860499554 (pbk.).Subject(s): Angelou, Maya | African American authors -- Biography | Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography | Civil rights workers -- United States -- BiographyDDC classification: 818.5409 Summary: ''It is 1964 and Maya Angelou is on her way home, leaving behind her beloved son Guy to finish university in Ghana. America is pulsing with the challenge of change, the civil rights movement is in full swing and that's where Maya Angelou wants to be, working alongside her friends Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. In this marvellous account Maya Angelou provides, with her customary wisdom, compassin and wit, a first-hand record of an extraordinarily exciting and tragic political period. She writes too of 'Jimmy' Baldwin, Eldridge Cleaver and of friends and family, and finishes with the beginnings of her career as one of America's most impressive writers of memoir. This book completes the six exhilarating volumes of autobiography that she began nearly thirty years ago with I Know Why Caged Bird Sings.'' - Back cover.
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''It is 1964 and Maya Angelou is on her way home, leaving behind her beloved son Guy to finish university in Ghana. America is pulsing with the challenge of change, the civil rights movement is in full swing and that's where Maya Angelou wants to be, working alongside her friends Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. In this marvellous account Maya Angelou provides, with her customary wisdom, compassin and wit, a first-hand record of an extraordinarily exciting and tragic political period. She writes too of 'Jimmy' Baldwin, Eldridge Cleaver and of friends and family, and finishes with the beginnings of her career as one of America's most impressive writers of memoir. This book completes the six exhilarating volumes of autobiography that she began nearly thirty years ago with I Know Why Caged Bird Sings.'' - Back cover.