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PublisherRandom House Publishing Group

ISBN-100553382039

ISBN-139780553382037

eBay Product ID (ePID)128645008

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Book TitleSong Flung Up to Heaven

Number of Pages224 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2003

TopicAmerican / African American, Civil Rights, Personal Memoirs, Literary, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies

GenreLiterary Criticism, Political Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorMaya Angelou

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight7 Oz

Item Length8.3 in

Item Width5.7 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2004-274165

ReviewsPraise 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 Edition22

TitleLeadingA

Dewey DecimalB

SynopsisThe 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 NumberPS3551.N464Z476 2003