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LETTER TO MY DAUGHTER

LETTER TO MY DAUGHTER

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LETTER TO MY DAUGHTER

by ANGELOU, Maya

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NY: Random House;, 2008. First Edition, first printing. 8vo., red cloth in dust jacket; 166 pages. Very Good (covers nice; contents clean & tight). very nice d/j.

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For a world of devoted readers, a much-awaited new volume of absorbing stories and inspirational wisdom from one of our best-loved writers.Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou's path to living well and living a life with meaning. Told in her own inimitable style, this book 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 "lifelong endeavor," or simply singing the praises of a meal of red rice--Maya 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."I 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."--from Letter to My DaughterFrom the Hardcover edition.

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Bookseller
Antic Hay Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
LETTER TO MY DAUGHTER
Author
ANGELOU, Maya
Format/Binding
8vo., red cloth in dust jacket; 166 pages
Book Condition
Used
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Edition
First Edition, first printing
Publisher
Random House;
Place of Publication
NY
Date Published
2008

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