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A Song Flung Up to Heaven
by Maya Angelou
ISBN: 0375431454
ISBN-13: 9780375431456
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
When this volume of her autobiography opens, Angelou is returning home from Africa to work alongside Malcolm X. However, she shortly thereafter learns of his assassination and begins her dark journey through the violent terrain of the civil rights movement.
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"Alternately elegaic, meditative, and humorous, a book to savor and remember."
-- Kirkus
"[A] quick-paced, frothy and sometimes amusing account that captures the texture of her life as an articulate artist - an original boho - well known among the black glitterati during a time of social upheaval. This book is what we get when we ask our mama or grandma to tell us again the story of when we were born." -- Esther Iverem
-- Washington Post Book World
"[R]eflective, meditative, calming."
-- Charlotte Observer
"Angelou's proximity to crucial and horrifying events, like the Watts riots and Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, lends the memoir a gripping sense of urgency." -- Paula Friedman
-- New York Times Book Review
"Concise and remarkably readable, slight in its chronological span (1964- 68), it could be considered as a series of beautifully crafted vignettes...For anyone who has not yet experienced Maya Angelou's autobiographical rondo, it will be a treat to find that this is not so much an ending as a beginning.A SONG FLUNG UP TO HEAVEN is the culmination of a unique autobiographical achievement, a glorious celebration of indomitable spirit." -- Margaret Busby
-- Guardian (London)
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Random House Large Print
Published date: 2002
Edition: 1th edition
Size: 5.75 x 8.56 inches
Weight: 1 pounds
Pages: 274
Publisher's Notes
In a sixth stunning memoir, the acclaimed author and poet describes her return from Africa to the U.S., her work with the civil rights movement, her devastation over the assassinations of both Malcolm X and Martin Luther King and the feelings of isolation that followed, and the writing of her first autobiographical work, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. (Biography)
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A Song Flung Up to Heaven
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Random House Large Print. Hardcover. 0375431454 A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket has some edgewear present. 2002 Random House Large Print Hard Cover . Very Good. 2002. ( more information) Offered by Seashellbooks.com, Inc. (United States)
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Random House LARGE PRINT; NY, 2002. LARGE PRINT EDITION . Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good reading copy condition, former library, clean text, sound binding. LARGE PRINT EDITION/UNABRIDGED/COMPLETE. Culmination of 6 vol. Of autobiography. 2 ISBN: 0375431454. ( more information) Offered by Snooty Literary Society (United States)
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