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Binding: Audio CD
Dewey Decimal Number: 809
EAN: 9780679451730
Format: Abridged
ISBN: 0679451730
Label: Random House Audio
Manufacturer: Random House Audio
Number Of Items: 3
Publication Date: 1996-09-03
Publisher: Random House Audio
Product Release Date: 1996-09-03
Studio: Random House Audio

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."