Product Information
A memoir of politics and activism, from the bestselling and beloved author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS 'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMA It is 1964 and Maya Angelou is on her way back home, leaving behind her beloved - and now seriously teenage - 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 marvellous account, Maya Angelou provides, with her customary wisdom, compassion and wit, a first-hand record of an extraordinarily exciting and tragic political period. She writes 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. 'She moved through the world with unshakeable calm, confidence and a fierce grace . . . She will always be the rainbow in my clouds' OPRAH WINFREY 'She was important in so many ways. She launched African American women writing in the United States. She was generous to a fault. She had nineteen talents - used ten. And was a real original. There is no duplicate' TONI MORRISONProduct Identifiers
PublisherLittle, Brown Book Group
ISBN-139781844085064
eBay Product ID (ePID)4032398386
Product Key Features
Book TitleA Song Flung Up to Heaven
AuthorDr Maya Angelou
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2008
GenreBiographies & True Stories
Dimensions
Item Height133mm
Item Width201mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorDr Maya Angelou
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom