I know why the caged bird sings / Maya Angelou.
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TextSeries: Virago modern classicsPublication details: London : Virago, 2012, c1969Edition: Hbk. edDescription: 309 p. ; 21 cmISBN: 9781844088188 (hbk.); 1844088189 (hbk.)Subject(s): Angelou, Maya -- Childhood and youth | African American women authors -- 20th century -- Biography | African American authors -- 20th century -- Biography | Entertainers -- Biography | Southern States -- Race relations | Southern States -- Social conditions -- 1945-DDC classification: 973.0496073092 Summary: In this, the celebrated, bestselling first volume of her autobiography, Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her childhood with her grandmother in the American South of the 1930s. She learns the power of the white folks at the other end of town and suffers the terrible trauma of rape by her mother's lover. As a black woman, Maya Angelou has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope and joy, celebration and achievement; loving the world, she also knows its cruelty.
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Originally published: New York: Random House, 1969; London: Virago, 1984.
In this, the celebrated, bestselling first volume of her autobiography, Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her childhood with her grandmother in the American South of the 1930s. She learns the power of the white folks at the other end of town and suffers the terrible trauma of rape by her mother's lover. As a black woman, Maya Angelou has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope and joy, celebration and achievement; loving the world, she also knows its cruelty.
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