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Author: Maya Angelou
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Amazon.com ReviewOprah Book Club Selection, May 1997 Maya Angelou has had more lives than the proverbial cat, and in The Heart of a Woman she continues the account of her remarkable life begun in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. In the first book of her bestselling autobiographical series, she describes her traumatic childhood in the small, segregated town of Stamps, Arkansas, during the 1930s. Gather Together in My Name picks up the story in the postwar years, when Maya, a single teenager with an infant son becomes, in short order, a cook, a madam, a dancer, and a prostitute. Next comes Singin and Swingin and Gettin Merry Like Christmas, an account of her twenties and her unsuccessful first marriage to a white man. The Heart of a Woman, the fourth in the series, takes us through one of the most exciting and formative periods of Angelous amazing life her beginnings as a writer and an activist in New York. Angelou has a happy knack of attracting the best and the brightest into her orbit, and The Heart of a Woman offers a veritable cornucopia of black luminaries in its pages. Singer Billie Holiday, writers John Ellins and Paule Marshall, jazz musicians Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln, and actors Godfrey Cambridge and James Earl Jones--Maya meets and learns from them all. Political activism soon follows as Ms. Angelou first organizes a theatrical benefit for the Reverend Martin Luther King and then becomes the director of the New York Southern Christian Leadership Conference office. Her involvement in the civil rights movement eventually brings her into contact with African freedom fighters Oliver Tambo and the charming Vusumzi Make, whom she marries and follows to Africa. The Heart of a Woman is as honest, painful, funny, outraged, and outrageous as Angelou herself. From her debut at the Apollo Theatre to her meeting with Malcolm X, Maya Angelou gives us something to cheer about and plenty to ponder as well. ReviewRemarkable . . . a great lady moving right on through a great memoir.Kirkus Reviews Maya Angelou has . . . achieved a kind of literary breakthrough which few writers of any time, place, or race achieve. . . . What makes [her] writing unique is . . . a melding of unconcerned honesty, consummate craft, and perfect descriptive pitch, yielding a rare compound of great emotional force and authenticity._The Washington Post Book World_To say that Angelou is a living legend is in no way an exaggeration. [She is] one of the great voices of contemporary literature.The Voice Angelou is one of the geniuses of the Afro-American serial autobiography.The New York Times A uniquely gifted wordsmith and storyteller.The San Diego Union-Tribune Amazon.com ReviewMillions have read Maya Angelous national bestseller The Heart of a Woman, and now you can hear her fascinating story in the authors own voice. Angelou exposes a turbulent period of her life as she struggles to raise a child, fulfill her goals as a writer, and fight for civil rights in an age of social injustice Angelous rich and resonating voice draws the listener into the unexpected details of her life. Working as a nightclub singer in Los Angeles, Angelou decides to move to New York with her son Guy in hopes of building stronger ties with the black art community. In an attempt to find stability for Guy and make a name for herself, her love life takes wild turns. Should she marry the bail bondsman whos as dry as stale bread or run away with the African freedom fighter? Her heart takes her to Africa, where her writing career blossoms but her marriage sours. The Heart of a Woman is filled with beautiful prose and songs Angelou displays her music talent in several vignettes, most memorably in a scene with Billie Holiday Angelou is performing at a nightclub when Holiday shrieks, Stop her, stop her... she sounds like my mama! ReviewI know that not since the days of my childhood, when people in books were more real than the people one saw every day, have I found myself SO moved.br -- James Baldwinbr Full of laughter and tears, love and hate, failures and triumphs, and above all, understanding.br -- John O. Killensbr Gather Together in My Namebr Gather Together in My Name is part of a select body of literature that includes The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Claude Browns Manchild in the Promised land, and Ernest J. Gainess The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Maya Angelou regards the world and herself with intelligence and wit she records the events of her life with style and grace.br -- William McPherson, The Washington Post Book Worldbr Here the caged bird soars, and sings in a voice as rich and funny, passionate and mellow as any writer I know.br -- Shana Alexanderbr From the Hardcover edition.
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