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All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
by Maya Angelou
ISBN: 0679457747
ISBN-13: 9780679457749
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
Angelou writes about her travels in Africa, particularly Ghana (including a romance with an African Muslim), as well as her trip to Germany with an American acting troupe, where she must face her own prejudices.
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"Thoroughly enjoyable...an important document drawing more much-needed attention to the hidden history of a people both African and American."
-- Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Maya Angelou is one of the geniuses of African-American serial autobiography. The very book titles reflect the energy of the black dream of freedom and home...Miss Angelou provides glimpses of people like the black novelist Julian Mayfield...More captivating, however, are her own episodic encounters with a homeland that refuses to become 'home'...There is no point of connection between Miss Angelou and what she calls the 'soul' of Africa." -- Houston A. Baker
-- New York Times Book Review
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Random House Inc
Published date: 1997
Size: 5.75 x 8.75 inches
Weight: 0.8 pounds
Pages: 208
Publisher's Notes
Once again, the poet casts her spell as she resumes one of the greatest personal narratives of our time. In this continuation, Angelou relates how she joins a "colony" of Black American expatriates in Ghana--only to discover no one ever goes home again.
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NY: Random House. NF/NF. ©1997. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0679457747 . Published @$20.00; Poet Angelou continues her story, this one her time in Africa with a group of Black American expatriates. ; 0.84 x 8.57 x 5.77 Inches; 224 pages . ( more information) Offered by Book Quest (United States)
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