- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Virago Press Ltd; Paperback edition (1 Jan 1986)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0860689077
- ISBN-13: 978-0860689072
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.6 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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'She continues with all the freshness and warmth of her earlier books' EVENING STANDARD 'Maya Angelou has an amazing ability to take readers into her personal maze and lead them out again feeling refreshed and even jubilant' CLANCY SIGAL, GUARDIAN 'Maya Angelou has a fiercely uncompromising spirit' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Told with the humorous, unsentimental wisdom that has gained Maya Angelou such a devoted following' SUNDAY TIMES
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Maya Angelou's five 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. In the fifth volume, Maya Angelou emigrates to Ghana only to discover that 'you can't go home again' but she comes to a new awareness of love and friendship, civil rights and slavery - and the myth of mother Africa
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The breezes of the West African night were intimate and shy, licking the hair, sweeping through cotton dresses with unseemly intimacy, then disappearing into the utter blackness. Read the first page
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A wonderful end to an exhilarating journey,
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This review is from: All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes (Paperback)
This book is the last in a series of 5 that has taken Maya Angelou from being a young kid in the South to a mature woman and mother living out her dreams in Africa. Maya's story combines so many elements of a good book- it has excitement, it touches history, it is philosophical, emotional - yet it is all true. One wonders as she comes into contact with the great figures of African and African American life, and as she contemplates the place of an African-American in the African dream, as well as the place of the Africa in the American dream.Behind all of the great moments that do not happen in the lives of most people this story is ultimately human. She battles for the development of her son and herself as a woman, mother. She reaches a place of greater maturity and yet with these new skills with which to understand the world around her, comes the insecurities both trivial and profound, that she articulates in a manner that that brings the reader to empathise greatly as if Maya is holding up a mirror for the reader, to understand themselves with great warmth and courage. The end of the other titles in the series were frustrating but this could be assuaged by the reading of the next, this last one leaves you satisfied by the experience, but bursting for more - surely the sign of a successful story and a great read
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Wonderful book,
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This review is from: All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes (Paperback)
The books of Maya Angelou are a joy written with humour sympathy and some very understandable anger.
Why can't everyone write like her wonderful.
5.0 out of 5 stars
very good,
By Emma Baylis (Berkshire, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes (Paperback)
bought for my mum, she loves the series - this book met her expectations and probably exceeded them too :)
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