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I know why the caged bird sings

Angelou, Maya2012
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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.
Main title:
Imprint:
London : Virago, 2012.London : Virago Press, 2012.copyright1969
Collation:
309 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Random House, 1969 ; London: Virago, 1984.
ISBN:
97818440881889781844088188 (hardback)
Dewey class:
973.0496073092973.0496
Language:
English
BRN:
17470
LocationCollectionCall numberStatus/Desc
Library at the Dock-BiographyBIOG 973.0496 ANGEAvailable
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