I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Softcover

Angelou, Maya

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9780553256154: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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ISBN 10: 0553256157 ISBN 13: 9780553256154

Publisher: Bantam Books (Mm), 1971

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Part of the five-volume autobiography of Maya Angelou, this is an evocation of the author's childhood years in the 30s. The author also wrote "The Heart of a Woman", "All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes" and "Gather Together in My Name". This tape is read by the author.

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Praise for I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS
" I know that not since the days of my childhood, when people in books were more real than people one saw every day, have I found myself so moved."
-James Baldwin
Praise for GATHER TOGETHER IN MY NAME
" Gather Together in My Name is part of a select body of literature that includes The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Claude Brown's Manchild in the Promised Land and Ernest J. Gaines' The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Maya Angelou regards the world and herself with intelligence and wit; she records the events of her life with style and grace."
-William McPherson, "The Washington Post Book World"
Praise for ALL GOD'S CHILDREN NEED TRAVELING SHOES
" This is a superb account by a great women who has embraced a difficult destiny with rare intelligence and infectious joie de vivre."
"-The Boston Globe"

Praise for I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS
"I know that not since the days of my childhood, when people in books were more real than people one saw every day, have I found myself so moved."
-James Baldwin

Praise for GATHER TOGETHER IN MY NAME
"Gather Together in My Name is part of a select body of literature that includes The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Claude Brown's Manchild in the Promised Land and Ernest J. Gaines' The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Maya Angelou regards the world and herself with intelligence and wit; she records the events of her life with style and grace."
-William McPherson, "The Washington Post Book World"

Praise for ALL GOD'S CHILDREN NEED TRAVELING SHOES
"This is a superb account by a great women who has embraced a difficult destiny with rare intelligence and infectious joie de vivre."
"-The Boston Globe "

""I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity."--James Baldwin

"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity. James Baldwin"

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity. James Baldwin"

"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity."--James Baldwin

Book Description:

One of America's most important classics, the first and best loved volume of Maya Angelou's bestselling seven-volume autobiography

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