I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (Paperback)

Maya Angelou becomes a Virago Modern Classics author, with brand-new jackets and a major campaign for her seven volumes of memoir, starting with I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS The international classic and bestseller, Maya Angelou's memoir paints a portrait of 'a brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMA 'I write about being a Black American woman, however, I am always talking about what it's like to be a human being. This is how we are, what makes us laugh, and this is how we fall and how we somehow, amazingly, stand up again' Maya Angelou In this first volume of her seven books of autobiography, Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her childhood with her grandmother in the American south of the 1930s. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination, violence and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. '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 '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 a real original. There is no duplicate' TONI MORRISON

General

Imprint:	Virago Press Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	VMC
Release date:	15 May 2024
Authors:	Maya Angelou
Dimensions:	198 x 126 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-0-349-01706-8
Categories:	Books
LSN:	0-349-01706-9
Barcode:	9780349017068

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