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Non-Fiction - Biography - ISBN: 0553379976, 1844085023, 0553260669 more

Maya Angelou's volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a black woman...
more...she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. In the sequel to her best-selling I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou is a young mother in California, unemployed, embarking on brief affairs and transient jobs in shops and night-clubs, turning to prostitution and the world of narcotics.

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Gather Toghether Im My Name, Be Inspired
Review of Gather Together in My Name - Maya Angelou by JoandLee

Advantages: Tells Things As They Were, Honestly And Truthfully
Disadvantages: As The Second Of A Set Of Five The First Book Has To Be Read To Fully Understand It.

This is the compelling sequal to the bestseller " I Know Why The Caged Bird SIngs". Having survived the war , Maya now finds herself facing the trials and tribulations of motherhood. At only 17 she finds it a great struggle. She's isolated from her family because of the baby, she finds herself drifting between transient jobs anywhere she could, shops, resaurants & nightclubs. As well as embarking on a series of affairs. In the end she feels ... Read review

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