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She continues with all the freshness and warmth of her earlier book s' 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’ )
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’ )
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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’ )
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* The fifth volume in Maya Angelou's bestselling autobiography is reissued in a new look to coincide with the publication of her new book
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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
Format: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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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.
Why can't everyone write like her wonderful.
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Excellent Read
A great story told beautifully and comes alive; line by line page by page. However, remember this is part of a collection of books that makes up Maya's Autobiography. Read more
Published 16 months ago by T. Hannigan
Funny bits
This book is about Maya Angelou emigrating to Ghana with her son.
There are some funny bits that I can relate to being from an african family. Read more
There are some funny bits that I can relate to being from an african family. Read more
Published on 3 July 2007 by CK
Pointless and empty
I found this book such a waste of time.The first half was simply a list of black activists that Maya met in Ghana with very few worthwhile anecdotes. Read more
Published on 24 Sep 2002 by C. Ramuz
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