A Song Flung Up to Heaven

A Song Flung Up to Heaven

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Synopsis

It is 1964 and Maya Angelou is on her way back home, leaving behind her beloved - and now seriously teenaged - son Guy, to finish university in Ghana. America is pulsing with the challenge of change, the civil rights movement is in full swing and that's where Maya Angelou wants to be, working alongside her friends Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. In this final volume, Maya Angelou provides, with her customary wisdom, compassion and wit, a first-hand record of an extraordinarily exciting and tragic political period. She writes too of "Jimmy" Baldwin, Eldridge Cleaver, and of friends and family, and finishes with the beginnings of her career as one of America's most impressive memoir writers.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Publisher: Virago
Published: 01 Sep 2003

ISBN 10: 1860499554
ISBN 13: 9781860499555

Media Reviews
'Told with the humorous, unsentimental wisdom that has gained her such a devoted following' Sunday Times 'It delivers the same essential charge of uplifting warmth, clear-eyed sagacity and indefatigable generosity of spirit, leaving us only to hope that another series, covering the latter portion of the roller- coaster's progress, might be in the offering.' SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY
Author Bio
Maya Angelou, author of five previous volumes of autobiography and several books of poetry, has been an actress, dancer, singer, film director and political activist. She now has a life-time appointment as Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University in North Carolina.