A Song Flung Up to Heaven by Maya Angelou
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.
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 ArkansasShe 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.
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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| ISBN 13 | 9781860499364 |
| ISBN 10 | 1860499368 |
| Title | A Song Flung Up to Heaven |
| Author | Maya Angelou |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2002-06-06 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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