The collection has been expertly put together to remind the
reader that while the way we describe things has changed, the
feelings behind them certainly haven''t. Bold, beautiful ...
everyone''s appetites will be satisfied. Elle magazine
內容簡介:
In this, the celebrated, bestselling first volume of her
autobiography, Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her childhood with
her grandmother in the American South of the 1930s. She learns the
power of the white folks at the other end of town and suffers the
terrible trauma of rape by her mother''s lover. As a black woman,
Maya Angelou has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also
hope and joy, celebration and achievement; loving the world, she
also knows its cruelty.
關於作者:
Born in 1928 in Missouri, Maya Angelou has been a waitress,
singer, actress, dancer, activist, filmmaker, writer and mother. As
well as her autobiography she has written several volumes of
poetry, including ''On the Pulse of Morning'' for the inauguration of
President Clinton. She has a lifetime appointment as Reynolds
Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University in North
Carolina.