Description: In this first volume of her celebrated collection of memoirs, the poet Maya Angelou describes in vivid, lyrical detail her childhood as a young black girl in the South.
Synopsis In this first volume of her celebrated collection of memoirs, the poet Maya Angelou describes in vivid, lyrical detail her childhood as a young black girl in the South.
Details
Publication Date:
1986-02-01
Edition Description:
Abridged
Size
Height:
7.0 in
Width:
4.5 in
Thickness:
0.8 in
Weight:
5.6 oz
Publisher's Note An unforgettable memoir of growing up black in the 1930s and 1940s in a tiny Arkansas town where Angelou's grandmother's store was the heart of the community and white people seemed as strange as aliens from another planet. 2 cassettes.
Industry Reviews "[T]ell[s] of finding hope in the midst of loss and adversity, and about the triumph of the human spirit. In these days and times, it's the kind of reading many people may yearn for." Charlotte Observer (04/25/2002)