I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Angelou, Maya
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Her story is told in scenes, ineluctably moving scenes, from the time when she and her brother were sent by her fancy living parents to Stamps, Arkansas, and a grandmother who had the local Store. Displaced they were and "If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat." But alternating with all the pain and terror and humiliation and fear as well as all the unanswered and unanswerable questions, there are affirmative memories and moments: her charming brother Bailey; her own "unshakable God"; a revival meeting in a tent; her 8th grade graduation; and at the end, when she's sixteen, the birth of a baby. Times When as she says "It seemed that the peace of a day's ending was an assurance that the covenant God made with children, Negroes and the crippled was still in effect." However charily one should apply the word, a beautiful book, an unconditionally involving memoir for our time or any time.
Easton Press, a division of MBI, Inc., based in Norwalk, Connecticut, is a publisher specializing in high-quality leather-bound books. In addition to canonical classics, poetry and art books, they publish a large library of science fiction and popular literature as well.
Some of Easton Press's products are arranged in monthly subscription series. The Easton Press's books are known for their elegant covers and beautiful illustrations by well-known artists. Each book has the following features:
Bound in genuine leather
Spine accented with 22 kt gold
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Gilded page edges.
Synopsis
Titled after a stanza from Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem “Sympathy,” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is the first of a series of seven autobiographical novels by African-American poet and writer Maya Angelou. Personally deeply involved and affected by the civil rights movement, the volume explores racism and identity in her early life. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings was nominated for the National Book Award in 1970. However, due to its depiction of controversial subjects such as sexuality, lesbianism and rape, the use of the novel in classrooms has been frequently challenged.
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- Bookseller
- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 80039
- Title
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Author
- Angelou, Maya
- Format/Binding
- Leather bound and boxed
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Signed Collector's Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Easton Press
- Date Published
- 2015
- Keywords
- African-Americans, Fiction, Autobiographical, Signed Editions, Negroes, Marguerite Annie Johnson, Family, Relationships, Racism, Single Parent, Sexuality, Child Abuse
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