I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
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Author: Maya AngelouEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1983-05-01
ISBN: 0553279378
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Bantam
Book Reviews of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Book Review: Unmistakable voice
Summary: 4 Stars
I give this product 4 stars. There is no one who can orate a book like Maya Angelou, especially her own. The inflection really put meat on the word, so to speak.
The only thing keeping it from 5 stars is that these three audio CD's contain only portions of the book and not it's entirety.
It's worth the purchase price and if you're a Maya fan, you'll enjoy it!
Summary of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
A phenomenal #1 bestseller that has appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for nearly three years, this memoir traces Maya Angelou's childhood in a small, rural community during the 1930s. Filled with images and recollections that point to the dignity and courage of black men and women,Angelou paints a sometimes disquieting, but always affecting picture of the people--and the times--that touched her life.
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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