I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou

ISBN 10: 0375507892 / ISBN 13: 9780375507892

Published by Random House, 2002

About this Item

Inscribed with mistake by Maya Angelou on name, she put a star and rewrote name and a small "sorry" by mistake and initialed at end of inscription, 1997 reprint of 1969 version, later printing, no other marks or writing, not price clipped, corners and spine end bumped, a few pages have a little wave at bottom (possibly from a paper clip?), light wear on dj mostly on corners and spine ends, covered in mylar.

Seller Inventory # 12514

Bibliographic Details

• Title: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
• Publisher: Random House
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375507892
• ISBN 13: 9780375507892
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed

About this title

Synopsis

Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide.
 
Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned.
 
Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read.

“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity.”—James Baldwin

About the Author

Maya Angelou was raised in Stamps, Arkansas. In addition to her bestselling autobiographies, including I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and The Heart of a Woman, she wrote numerous volumes of poetry, among them Phenomenal Woman, And Still I Rise, On the Pulse of Morning, and Mother. Maya Angelou died in 2014.