Gather Together in My Name - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553228803 ISBN 13: 9780553228809

Synopsis

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 best-selling 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.

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Review:

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 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)

Angelou has the knack of guiding us along the seamier side of life while making us feel refreshed and restored like a terrfic gospel blues singer (GUARDIAN)

She has warmth and humour and a sense of wholeness and content that glows through (Polly Toynbee)

Exceptional...should have been published here long ago (Paul Bailey, OBSERVER)

Book Description:

The second title in Maya Angelou's bestselling autobiography is reissued in a new look to coincide with the publication of her new book

About this edition

• ISBN 10: 0553228803
• ISBN 13: 9780553228809
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback