I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings : The internationally bestselling classic (Paperback / Softback)Maya Angelou

  • Paperback / Softback
  • 288 Pages / Published 26 Jan 1984
  • Out of stock

Description

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, joy, achievement and celebration.In this first volume of her five books of autobiography, Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her childhood with her grandmother in the Amercian 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. 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

Additional information

Weight 257 g
Dimensions 126 mm
ISBN-13

9780860685111

Publisher

Little, Brown Book Group

Imprint

Virago Press Ltd

Date of Publication

26 Jan 1984

By (author)

Maya Angelou

Pages

288

Format

Paperback / softback

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