A Song Flung Up to Heaven

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It is 1964 and Maya Angelou is on her way back home, leaving behind her beloved - and now seriously teenage - son Guy, to finish university in Ghana. America is pulsing with the challenge of change, the civil rights movement is in full swing and that's where Maya Angelou wants to be, working alongside her friends Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.

In this marvellous account, Maya Angelou provides, with her customary wisdom, compassion and wit, a first-hand record of an extraordinarily exciting and tragic political period. She writes of 'Jimmy' Baldwin, Eldridge Cleaver, and of friends and family, and finishes with the beginnings of her career as one of America's most impressive memoir writers.

'She has the knack of guiding us along the seamier side of life while making us feel refreshed and restored like a terrific gospel blues singer' GUARDIAN

'Told with the humorous, unsentimental wisdom that has gained her such a devoted following' SUNDAY TIMES

'Triumphantly completes the six volumes of autobiography that began nearly thirty years ago with Maya Angelou's astonishingly successful I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - a work that changed readers' perceptions of what autobiographical writing could achieve' BARRY FORSHAW

Critics Review

  • A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman

  • The poems and stories she wrote . . . were gifts of wisdom and wit, courage and grace

  • She moved through the world with unshakeable calm, confidence and a fierce grace . . . She will always be the rainbow in my clouds

  • She was important in so many ways. She launched African American women writing in the United States. She was generous to a fault. She had nineteen talents – used ten. And was a real original. There is no duplicate

  • She has the knack of guiding us along the seamier side of life while making us feel refreshed and restored like a terrific gospel blues singer

    Guardian

  • Told with the humorous, unsentimental wisdom that has gained her such a devoted following

    Sunday Times

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