I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
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Author: Maya AngelouEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-04-21
ISBN: 0345514408
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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- ISBN13: 9780345514400
- Condition: New
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Book Review: Memorable Book when growing up
Summary: 5 Stars
This book was published in 1969, I would have been 12 so I am guessing I read it sometime in the 70's, my teen years and I remember being very moved. I have not read it again, but am planning to do so. I am very surprised and shocked at the controversy!! I had no idea someone wouldnt like it, or have the impressions that have been written in these reviews. I do know that rereading books from my childhood is a totally different experience, one I cannot recreate; I am different, and the world is a different place. I am wondering if some of the criticism has to do with your age when you read this, and also if now is the first time for reading this book, the world we live in is totally different. Our views, how we live etc. so some of these may influence your perception. All I know is, I remember this as one of my all time favorite books that moved me. Others are : I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Velvet Room,From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler , A Wrinkle in Time series,Island of the Blue Dolphins, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables ( whole series an all time favorite reread ) , Flowers for Algernon, Jonathan Livingston Seagull ( yah this ages me ), The Little Prince, .... these are just some from my childhood and teen years. I read a lot. I know I have forgotten some important book that were pivotal for me, but I have not thought about these books in a long time:) Most of these were written in the 60's and 70's. I am amazed at how many top books of the time I did read, wondering how I chose them :) Oh I almost forgot, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, The Secret Garden. All these had great impact, probably because of being young and impressionable. My friend lent me her copy of The Secret Garden that had been her Grandmothers. Oh, what I would do for that copy now :) I love old books, even then it added to the ambience and mystery to reading it. Also, loved The Little Princess by same author.
Anyway, I know that the book" Why the Caged Bird Sings" touched me in ways I had never experienced. I am glad I read it and plan on rereading soon:) I recommend this book as a must read.
Summary of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local ?powhitetrash.? At eight years old and back at her mother?s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age?and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns about love for herself and the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (?I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare?) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned.Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a modern American classic that will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read.
In this first of five volumes of autobiography, poet Maya Angelou recounts a youth filled with disappointment, frustration, tragedy, and finally hard-won independence. Sent at a young age to live with her grandmother in Arkansas, Angelou learned a great deal from this exceptional woman and the tightly knit black community there. These very lessons carried her throughout the hardships she endured later in life, including a tragic occurrence while visiting her mother in St. Louis and her formative years spent in California--where an unwanted pregnancy changed her life forever. Marvelously told, with Angelou's "gift for language and observation," this "remarkable autobiography by an equally remarkable black woman from Arkansas captures, indelibly, a world of which most Americans are shamefully ignorant."
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