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Title: Gather Together in My Name by Maya Angelou ISBN: 0553260669 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1985 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.69
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the best books I have ever read
Comment: Too often when I have read someone's memoirs or an autobiography I have had the suspicion that the author is painting a very self-serving portrait of the events in their lives. Reading Maya's memoirs is the exception. She didn't have to tell the world that she worked for awhile as a 'pimp', as a prostitute, or as an exotic dancer. Many people wouldn't have for fear of personal embarrasment. Maya is beyond that. She owns her life and shows us her successes, her mistakes, and never tries to make excuses or blame others. Maya knows that everyone has their dark moments and when we take ourselves too seriously and only show the world our successes we rob everyone of valuable lessons. I found this book to be one of the best I have ever read. Congratulations Maya on a job well done.
Rating: 5
Summary: A heart touching story of truth and love, through struggle.
Comment: This beautifully descriptive story takes place some time before the 1940's. It talks about the stuggles that blacks were facing, before the time that civil rights groups were starting to develop. As an Afican American, the story she depicts makes me proud of my race and the world as the HUMAN race. Maya Angelou is an exceptional author and to write about her own life experiences enriches the story and enlightens the reader of our past. I stongly urge anyone, no matter what race you are, to read this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: An honest, fascinating autobiography that reads like poetry.
Comment: This is the second in Maya Angelou's series of books about her life. It is as beautifully written as the first volume, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" and covers her life from the ages of sixteen to nineteen. For many of us, these years would not make for fascinating reading, but for Ms. Angelou these were years of searching and experimenting in a time when opportunities were plentiful, but usually contained hidden costs. Much of the book is about how Ms. Angelou belatedly discovered the hidden agendas of those she came to love. Indeed, hardly anything turned out the way she planned. Ms. Angelou is completely honest about her life, her naivety, her ambitions, and especially her feelings. She successfully evokes all the feelings and dreams of a young woman who is trying to make it as an adult. This is a powerful book in which the author invites you into her innermost world, and lets you share her excitement, disappointment, fear, elation, hardship, mistakes, and desires. Ms. Angelou experienced much more during these years than most of us would dream of: She worked as a cook, waitress, dancer, prostitute, clothing seller, restaurant manager and Madam. In between jobs she retreated to life with family. All of her experiences are described in vivid detail yet so straightforwardly that the book is actually quite short (181 pages). I highly recommend this book, as well as the first volume of Ms. Angelou's autobiography
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Title: Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas by Maya Angelou ISBN: 0553251996 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1985 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou ISBN: 0553279378 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1983 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes by Maya Angelou ISBN: 067973404X Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: June, 1991 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou ISBN: 0553380095 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: A Song Flung Up to Heaven by Maya Angelou ISBN: 0375507477 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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