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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |  | Author: Maya Angelou
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  328 reviews
Sales Rank: 1358
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Pages: 304
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Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 0345514408
Dewey Decimal Number: 818.54092
EAN: 9780345514400
ASIN: 0345514408
Publication Date: April 21, 2009
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In this first of five volumes of autobiography, poet Maya Angelou recounts a youth filled with disappointment, frustration, tragedy, and finally hard-won independence. Sent at a young age to live with her grandmother in Arkansas, Angelou learned a great deal from this exceptional woman and the tightly knit black community there. These very lessons carried her throughout the hardships she endured later in life, including a tragic occurrence while visiting her mother in St. Louis and her formative years spent in California--where an unwanted pregnancy changed her life forever. Marvelously told, with Angelou's "gift for language and observation," this "remarkable autobiography by an equally remarkable black woman from Arkansas captures, indelibly, a world of which most Americans are shamefully ignorant."
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Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age–and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns about love for herself and the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned.
Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a modern American classic that will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read.
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 No problems July 9, 2010
colodreamer
I received the book is great time and it was in great shape. Nice price too. No problems with order
Absolutely beautiful July 7, 2010
happydaisy
I normally don't go for nonfiction. I had previously read sections of this books for some of my classes in college, but never read the whole thing. After reading it though I'm wondering why it took me so long. This book is really amazing and the way that Angelou writes is wonderfully refreshing. I thought the ending was great and fit perfectly with her style. She has this fabulous way of writing that is both wonderfully poetic and yet manages to smack you in the face in a tell it like it is sort of way. Anyway, this book is definitely worth reading even if you don't normally read nonfiction. Her story seemed to me to be about how important the relationships in your life are. Through every place she lived, Maya had those people in her life that influenced her for good or bad. Anyway, you should read this book!
Beautifully Written June 5, 2010
Maine User
I loved this book. Written very simply and straightfoward, yet poetic. It drew me in almost immediately. Only complaint is that it left me wanting more information. For example, Maya and her brother had been incredibly close and were the only constant in each other's lives, but at one point they live apart and there is no mention of how this separation impacted either one of them. At several points in the memoir, I had questions like this that were never resolved. But overall I would definitely recommend. Maya has a unique and beautiful voice.
Nobody but nobody makes it out here alone May 29, 2010
rmcrae (Houston, Texas)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Maya Angelou's life story sounds like something out of a Lifetime movie. She and her older brother Bailey at ages 3 and 4 were shipped down to Stamps, Arkansas with their paternal grandmother (Momma) and Uncle Willie after the divorce of their parents. Both struggled with feelings of abandonment until their father sent them to live with their mother Vivian in St. Louis and Maya was then molested and raped at the tender age of 8 by her mom's live-in boyfriend. Too afraid to speak out against him in court, Mr. Freeman was released and murdered the same day. Maya was afraid her words had killed him and so she refused to speak for several years. She later broke out of her self-imposed silence with the help of a teacher named Mrs. Flowers. Maya and Bailey are reunited with their mother in California and feelings of sexual confusion lead the teenager to becoming pregnant after a one time encounter. The baby is kept and loved.
That's the general run through of the book, but there are so many characters and stories in between that beautifully illustrate the central theme of alienation and feeling like you don't belong anywhere. "What you lookin' at me for? I didn't come to stay!" Maya felt like an outcast growing up because she was a 6 foot tall black girl with a big gap between her teeth and a low voice. Although many people she came across made it their mission to harm and destroy her, she rose above it all. Graphic descriptions of violence, rape, and sexuality might call for parental discretion, but aren't written for shock value. A running criticism of Maya is her frank sometimes bitter views of whites while growing up in the segregated south of the 30s and 40s. Keep in mind that Maya is speaking from her girlhood point of view and is far from a racist (she married two white guys for crying out loud!). She had limited exposure to them and heard awful stories of the lynchings and rapes carried out against other blacks. As Oprah would say, fear plus a lack of exposure equals ignorance. The few whites Maya did meet were cruel to her, a dentist who refused to treat her despite owing a major debt to Momma's store in particular. This is just the first part of an intriguing life that continues to inspire us all.
HAPPY in Lampasas TX ........ May 4, 2010
Valori Ervin
the book was in mint condition, looks new, but paid used book price for it.
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