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Letter to my daughter / Maya Angelou.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781400066124 (hc) :
- Physical Description: xii, 166 p. ; 22 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, 2008.
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | 818.5409 Angel | 31681001909944 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
The best-selling author ofEven the Stars Look Lonesome and Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now brings together personal reminiscences, hard-won wisdom, and inspirational ideas in a new collection of short essays that include "Loving and Living Are Bold Words," "Giving," "Good Living Is Hard Work," and others. 250,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
A collection of short essays includes personal reminiscences, hard-won wisdom, and inspirational ideas. - Random House, Inc.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠Maya Angelou shares her path to living well and with meaning in this absorbing book of personal essays.
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Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter transcends genres and categories: guidebook, memoir, poetry, and pure delight.
Here in short spellbinding essays are glimpses of the tumultuous life that led Angelou to an exalted place in American letters and taught her lessons in compassion and fortitude: how she was brought up by her indomitable grandmother in segregated Arkansas, taken in at thirteen by her more worldly and less religious mother, and grew to be an awkward, six-foot-tall teenager whose first experience of loveless sex paradoxically left her with her greatest gift, a son.
Whether she is recalling such lost friends as Coretta Scott King and Ossie Davis, extolling honesty, decrying vulgarity, explaining why becoming a Christian is a âlifelong endeavor,â or simply singing the praises of a meal of red riceâMaya Angelou writes from the heart to millions of women she considers her extended family.
Like the rest of her remarkable work, Letter to My Daughter entertains and teaches; it is a book to cherish, savor, re-read, and share.
âI gave birth to one child, a son, but I have thousands of daughters. You are Black and White, Jewish and Muslim, Asian, Spanish speaking, Native Americans and Aleut. You are fat and thin and pretty and plain, gay and straight, educated and unlettered, and I am speaking to you all. Here is my offering to you.ââfrom Letter to My Daughter
