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Availability:In StockContributor:Maya AngelouPublish date:2009-10-27Pages:192
Language:EnglishPublisher:Random House TradeISBN-13:9780812980035ISBN-10:812980034UPC:9780812980035Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, Literary Figures, WomenBook Topic:African American & BlackSize:8.00 x 5.30 x 0.52 inchesWeight:0.3594Product ID:SC6G0G5FEV
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Maya Angelou shares her path to living well and with meaning in this absorbing book of personal essays.

Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter transcends genres and categories: guidebook, memoir, poetry, and pure delight.

Here in short spellbinding essays are glimpses of the tumultuous life that led Angelou to an exalted place in American letters and taught her lessons in compassion and fortitude: how she was brought up by her indomitable grandmother in segregated Arkansas, taken in at thirteen by her more worldly and less religious mother, and grew to be an awkward, six-foot-tall teenager whose first experience of loveless sex paradoxically left her with her greatest gift, a son.

Whether she is recalling such lost friends as Coretta Scott King and Ossie Davis, extolling honesty, decrying vulgarity, explaining why becoming a Christian is a "lifelong endeavor," or simply singing the praises of a meal of red rice-Maya Angelou writes from the heart to millions of women she considers her extended family.

Like the rest of her remarkable work, Letter to My Daughter entertains and teaches; it is a book to cherish, savor, re-read, and share.

"I gave birth to one child, a son, but I have thousands of daughters. You are Black and White, Jewish and Muslim, Asian, Spanish speaking, Native Americans and Aleut. You are fat and thin and pretty and plain, gay and straight, educated and unlettered, and I am speaking to you all. Here is my offering to you."--from Letter to My Daughter
Language:EnglishPublisher:Random House TradeISBN-13:9780812980035ISBN-10:812980034UPC:9780812980035Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, Literary Figures, WomenBook Topic:African American & BlackSize:8.00 x 5.30 x 0.52 inchesWeight:0.3594Product ID:SC6G0G5FEV
Maya Angelou was raised in Stamps, Arkansas. In addition to her bestselling autobiographies, including I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and The Heart of a Woman, she wrote numerous volumes of poetry, among them Phenomenal Woman, And Still I Rise, On the Pulse of Morning, and Mother. Maya Angelou died in 2014.
Publisher: Random House Trade

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