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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

By Maya Angelou

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Contemporary literature

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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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. 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
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
304
Release Date:
2009-04-21
Publication Date:
2009-04-21
Publisher:
Random House Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0812980026
ISBN13:
9780812980028
Weight:
322 g
Height:
143 cm
Width:
204 cm
Thickness:
26 cm
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