A Song Flung Up To Heaven : Large Print :

Maya Angelou

ISBN 10: 0753198355 / ISBN 13: 9780753198353

Published by Isis Publications, 2003

About this Item

Published In 2003 : 1st. Large Print Edition : Isis Publishing : A Plastic Shrink Is Protecting The Book : Nice Clean Covers With Light Face Rippling : Very Clean Internally : Otherwise Fine : Ex Library Copy With Just 1 Neat Stamp : The Front End-Paper Is Still Intact : Good Solid Binding With Bright Clear Text : Overall , Quite A Hard Edition To Find :

Seller Inventory # 40 - 7865

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Song Flung Up To Heaven : Large Print :
• Publisher: Isis Publications
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0753198355
• ISBN 13: 9780753198353
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • American Memiors

About this title

Synopsis

The culmination of a unique achievement in modern American literature: the six volumes of autobiography that began more than thirty years ago with the appearance of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

A Song Flung Up to Heaven opens as Maya Angelou returns from Africa to the United States to work with Malcolm X. But first she has to journey to California to be reunited with her mother and brother. No sooner does she arrive there than she learns that Malcolm X has been assassinated.

Devastated, she tries to put her life back together, working on the stage in local theaters and even conducting a door-to-door survey in Watts. Then Watts explodes in violence, a riot she describes firsthand.

Subsequently, on a trip to New York, she meets Martin Luther King, Jr., who asks her to become his coordinator in the North, and she visits black churches all over America to help support King’s Poor People’s March.

But once again tragedy strikes. King is assassinated, and this time Angelou completely withdraws from the world, unable to deal with this horrible event. Finally, James Baldwin forces her out of isolation and insists that she accompany him to a dinner party—where the idea for writing I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is born. In fact, A Song Flung Up to Heavenends as Maya Angelou begins to write the first sentences of Caged Bird.



From the Trade Paperback edition.