Letter to My Daughter
by:
Maya Angelou (author)
Having marked her 80th birthday, the celebrated poet-memoirist now shares reflections on what her long, eventful life has taught her. Thus, Letter to My Daughter serves as a poignant, book-length epilogue to Angelou's six autobiographies, a classic series that began with her much-acclaimed I Know...
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Having marked her 80th birthday, the celebrated poet-memoirist now shares reflections on what her long, eventful life has taught her. Thus, Letter to My Daughter serves as a poignant, book-length epilogue to Angelou's six autobiographies, a classic series that began with her much-acclaimed I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781588367518 (1588367517)
Publish date: September 23rd 2008
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Pages no: 81
Edition language: English
Filled with worldly wisdom that cheers a woman on because Maya Angelou had been hit by life real hard yet she kept going. Go, Girl! Fighting!
Review first published on my blog: http://memoriesfrombooks.blogspot.com/2012/07/letter-to-my-daughter.htmlLetter to My Daughter is a collection of short essays by Maya Angelou - bits of opinion and advice drawn from and explained using different incidents in her life. Maya Angelou gave birth to on...
Audiobook version, read by the author. Maya Angelou has a voice like warm butter. If she read it aloud, she could make her grocery list sound wise and sensual and beautiful. When listening to her, I just want to nod my head and agree, grateful that she's sharing her thoughts with me. In this book, s...
I had been meaning to read work by Maya Angelou for a while, so when I was sitting in a local writers' group's library I slipped one of her volumes of poetry from the shelft and started flipping through it, reading the shorter poems (though none were terribly long). I'm not a poetry fan by any means...