I know why the caged bird sings / Maya Angelou.
By: Angelou, Maya
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Publisher: London : Virago Press, 1984 (2002 printing)Description: 281 p. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 086068511X (pbk.).Subject(s): Angelou, Maya -- Childhood and youth | Angelou, Maya -- Homes and haunts -- Arkansas | African American authors -- Biography | African American families -- Arkansas | Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Arkansas | Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography | Entertainers -- United States -- Biography | Arkansas -- Social life and customs | Arkansas -- Intellectual life -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 818.5409 Summary: " Maya Angelou's six 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 and joy, achievement and celebration. In this first volume of her autobiography, Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her childhood with her grandmother in the American south of the 1930s.She learns the power of the white folks at the other end of town and suffers the terrible trauma of rape by her mother's lover." - Back cover
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" Maya Angelou's six 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 and joy, achievement and celebration. In this first volume of her autobiography, Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her childhood with her grandmother in the American south of the 1930s.She learns the power of the white folks at the other end of town and suffers the terrible trauma of rape by her mother's lover." - Back cover