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A Song Flung Up to Heaven Maya Angelou

A Song Flung Up to Heaven By Maya Angelou

A Song Flung Up to Heaven by Maya Angelou


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The final volume of Maya Angelou's autobiography. It is 1964 and Angelou is on her way back home, leaving behind her beloved - and now seriously teenaged - son, Guy, to finish university in Ghana, while America pulses with the changes wrought by the civil rights movement.

A Song Flung Up to Heaven Summary

A Song Flung Up to Heaven by Maya Angelou

It is 1964 and Maya Angelou is on her way back home, leaving behind her beloved - and now seriously teenaged - son Guy, to finish university in Ghana. America is pulsing with the challenge of change, the civil rights movement is in full swing and that's where Maya Angelou wants to be, working alongside her friends Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. In this final volume, Maya Angelou provides, with her customary wisdom, compassion and wit, a first-hand record of an extraordinarily exciting and tragic political period. She writes too of "Jimmy" Baldwin, Eldridge Cleaver, and of friends and family, and finishes with the beginnings of her career as one of America's most impressive memoir writers.

A Song Flung Up to Heaven Reviews

This one is for Maya Angelou aficionados because it completes her autobiography but is the sixth volume and cannot therefore be expected to have the same impact as at the start with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which covered her childhood and sexual abuse in Arkansas. She deals now with 1964-68, exciting times for her to return to America from Africa but made tragic by the murders of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, who she was about to work with in the black civil rights movement. With her unflinching honesty, she drops in little gems of wisdom and some extraordinary anecdotes, including the mean driver who terrifies her by parking in front of an oncoming train and her ill-fated revenge upon an ex-lover.

About Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou, author of fiveprevious volumes of autobiography and several books of poetry, has been an actress, dancer, singer, film director and political activist. She now has a life-time appointment as Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University in North Carolina.

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GOR001919384
9781860499364
1860499368
A Song Flung Up to Heaven by Maya Angelou
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Little, Brown Book Group
2002-06-06
224
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