Singin' & Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas

Beschreibung

A memoir about motherhood and music from the bestselling author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS<BR><BR>'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMA<BR><BR>Maya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. <BR><BR>In her third marvellous volume, music and her son are the focus of Maya Angelou's life.

She is on the edge of a new world: marriage, show business and a triumphant tour of Porgy and Bess.<BR><BR>'She moved through the world with unshakeable calm, confidence and a fierce grace . . . She will always be the rainbow in my clouds' OPRAH WINFREY<BR><BR>'She was important in so many ways. She launched African American women writing in the United States. She was generous to a fault.

She had nineteen talents - used ten. And was a real original. There is no duplicate' TONI MORRISON

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