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Maya Angelou
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
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English |
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Mass Market Paperback |
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304 |
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1983-05-01 |
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0553279378 |
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Bantam |
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0.34 pounds |
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4.26 x 6.88 x 0.91 inches |
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Reissue |
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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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