I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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Very Good: A book that has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the cover, ...
Release Year
2009
ISBN
9780812980028
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0812980026
ISBN-13
9780812980028
eBay Product ID (ePID)
16038711963

Product Key Features

Book Title
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Topic
American / African American, Personal Memoirs, Literary, Customs & Traditions, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Genre
Literary Criticism, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Author
Maya Angelou
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
10.8 Oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
5.8 in

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Trade
Reviews
Praise forI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings "More than a tour de force of language or the story of childhood suffering . . . A summary of the incidents cannot do this book justice; one has to read it to appreciate its sensitivity and life." Newsweek "I Know Why the Caged Bird Singsliberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity." James Baldwin "A beautiful bookan unconditionally involving memoir for our time or any time . . . Maya Angelou is a natural writer with an inordinate sense of life and she has written an exceptional autobiographical narrative." Kirkus Reviews "Simultaneously touching and comic." The New York Times "A heroic and beautiful book." Cleveland Plain Dealer, Praise for I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings "More than a tour de force of language or the story of childhood suffering . . . A summary of the incidents cannot do this book justice; one has to read it to appreciate its sensitivity and life." Newsweek " 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 "A beautiful bookan unconditionally involving memoir for our time or any time . . . Maya Angelou is a natural writer with an inordinate sense of life and she has written an exceptional autobiographical narrative." Kirkus Reviews "Simultaneously touching and comic." The New York Times "A heroic and beautiful book." Cleveland Plain Dealer, Praise for I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings "More than a tour de force of language or the story of childhood suffering . . . A summary of the incidents cannot do this book justice; one has to read it to appreciate its sensitivity and life." Newsweek " 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 "A beautiful bookan unconditionally involving memoir for our time or any time . . . Maya Angelou is a natural writer with an inordinate sense of life and she has written an exceptional autobiographical narrative." Kirkus Reviews "Simultaneously touching and comic." The New York Times "A heroic and beautiful book." Cleveland Plain Dealer From the Trade Paperback edition., "This testimony from a black sister marks the beginning of a new era in the minds and hearts of all black men and women...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. I have no words for this achievement, but I know that not since the days of my childhood, when the people in books were more real than the people one saw every day, have I found myself so moved... Her portrait is a biblical study in life in the midst of death." -- James Baldwin "Simultaneously touching and comic" --The New York Times "It is a heroic and beautiful book." --Clevland Plain Dealer "Maya Angelou is a natural writer with an inordinate sense of life and she has written and exceptional autobiographical narrative... a beautiful book -- an unconditionally involving memoir for our time or any time." --The Kirkus Reviews From the Paperback edition.
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
917.3/09/74960924 B
Synopsis
Maya Angelou's debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS's American Masters . Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou's debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. 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 that love for herself, 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 will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read. " 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
LC Classification Number
PS3551.N464Z466 2015

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