A Song Flung Up to HeavenA Song Flung Up to Heaven
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Large Print, 2002
Current format, Large Print, 2002, 1st large print ed. --, No Longer Available.Large Print, 2002
Current format, Large Print, 2002, 1st large print ed. --, No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formatsThe culmination of a unique achievement in modern American literature: the six volumes of autobiography that began more than thirty years ago with the appearance ofI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. A Song Flung Up to Heavenopens as Maya Angelou returns from Africa to the United States to work with Malcolm X. But first she has to journey to California to be reunited with her mother and brother. No sooner does she arrive there than she learns that Malcolm X has been assassinated. Devastated, she tries to put her life back together, working on the stage in local theaters and even conducting a door-to-door survey in Watts. Then Watts explodes in violence, a riot she describes firsthand. Subsequently, on a trip to New York, she meets Martin Luther King, Jr., who asks her to become his coordinator in the North, and she visits black churches all over America to help support King's Poor People's March. But once again tragedy strikes. King is assassinated, and this time Angelou completely withdraws from the world, unable to deal with this horrible event. Finally, James Baldwin forces her out of isolation and insists that she accompany him to a dinner party--where the idea for writingI Know Why the Caged Bird Singsis born. In fact,A Song Flung Up to Heavenends as Maya Angelou begins to write the first sentences ofCaged Bird.
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- New York : Random House Large Print, c2002.
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