A Song Flung Up to Heaven, Angelou Dr., Maya

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ISBN
0553382039
EAN
9780553382037
Date of Publication
20030401
Publication Name
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Type
Paperback / softback
Release Title
A Song Flung Up to Heaven
Artist
Angelou Dr., Maya
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0553382039
ISBN-13
9780553382037
eBay Product ID (ePID)
128645008

Product Key Features

Book Title
Song Flung Up to Heaven
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2003
Topic
American / African American, Personal Memoirs, Civil Rights, Literary, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Genre
Literary Criticism, Political Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Author
Maya Angelou
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
7.2 Oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
5.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2004-274165
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
A
Reviews
Praise for I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings "I know that not since the days of my childhood, when people in books were more real than the people one saw every day, have I found myself so moved." -James Baldwin Gather Together in My Name "Gather Together in My Name is part of a select body of literature that includes The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Claude Brown's Manchild in the Promised Land and Ernest J. Gaines' The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Maya Angelou regards the world and herself with intelligence and wit; she records the events of her life with style and grace." -William McPherson, The Washington Post Book World All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes "This is a superb account by a great woman who has embraced a difficult destiny with rare intelligence and infectious joie de vivre." - The Boston Globe From the Hardcover edition., Praise for I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings "I know that not since the days of my childhood, when people in books were more real than the people one saw every day, have I found myself so moved." --James Baldwin Gather Together in My Name "Gather Together in My Name is part of a select body of literature that includes The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Claude Brown's Manchild in the Promised Land and Ernest J. Gaines' The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Maya Angelou regards the world and herself with intelligence and wit; she records the events of her life with style and grace." --William McPherson, The Washington Post Book World All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes "This is a superb account by a great woman who has embraced a difficult destiny with rare intelligence and infectious joie de vivre." -- The Boston Globe From the Hardcover edition., Praise for I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings "I know that not since the days of my childhood, when people in books were more real than the people one saw every day, have I found myself so moved." -James Baldwin Gather Together in My Name "Gather Together in My Name is part of a select body of literature that includes The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Claude Brown's Manchild in the Promised Land and Ernest J. Gaines' The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Maya Angelou regards the world and herself with intelligence and wit; she records the events of her life with style and grace." -William McPherson, The Washington Post Book World All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes "This is a superb account by a great woman who has embraced a difficult destiny with rare intelligence and infectious joie de vivre." - The Boston Globe
Dewey Decimal
B
Synopsis
The culmination of a unique achievement in modern American literature: the six volumes of autobiography that began more than thirty years ago with the appearance of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings . A Song Flung Up to Heaven opens as Maya Angelou returns from Africa to the United States to work with Malcolm X. But first she has to journey to California to be reunited with her mother and brother. No sooner does she arrive there than she learns that Malcolm X has been assassinated. Devastated, she tries to put her life back together, working on the stage in local theaters and even conducting a door-to-door survey in Watts. Then Watts explodes in violence, a riot she describes firsthand. Subsequently, on a trip to New York, she meets Martin Luther King, Jr., who asks her to become his coordinator in the North, and she visits black churches all over America to help support King's Poor People's March. But once again tragedy strikes. King is assassinated, and this time Angelou completely withdraws from the world, unable to deal with this horrible event. Finally, James Baldwin forces her out of isolation and insists that she accompany him to a dinner party--where the idea for writing I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is born. In fact, A Song Flung Up to Heaven ends as Maya Angelou begins to write the first sentences of Caged Bird .
LC Classification Number
PS3551.N464Z476 2003

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