Gather Together in My Name
by:
Maya Angelou (author)
In Gather Together in My Name Maya Angelou continues her stunning autobiography. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, passionate and mellow, she fills the pages with both wisdom and wonder as she brings us along in her struggle and dance through life.From the Paperback edition.
In Gather Together in My Name Maya Angelou continues her stunning autobiography. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, passionate and mellow, she fills the pages with both wisdom and wonder as she brings us along in her struggle and dance through life.From the Paperback edition.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780553379976 (0553379976)
Publish date: May 12th 1997
Publisher: Bantam
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Literature,
Cultural,
American,
African American,
Biography Memoir,
Poetry,
Womens
Series: Maya Angelou's Autobiography (#2)
It’s hard to read such an honest book full of uncomfortable truths. The author picks up where Caged Bird left off, telling her story from ages 17-19. It’s a story of beginnings and endings as she struggles to define herself as a person and find her way as an adult in a harsh world, as her family dis...
I enjoyed this more than Angelou's first memoir, which won't be a surprise to anyone who knows my tastes, because in this book she's a teenager/young adult while in the first she was a child. Adults make for active protagonists, while children are passive. So I enjoyed the content more and therefore...
This was quite blah at the beginning & middle; and towards the end it elicited a very severe, visceral disgust with the author's choices at that particular stage of her life. I had to force myself to finish this which was disappointing considering the success of the 1st book.I might pick up the 3rd ...
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