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Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas
by Maya Angelou
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Good+/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394405455
- ISBN 13
- 9780394405452
- Seller
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Walcott, Iowa, United States
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About This Item
Random House. New York. 1976. Quarter-bound in red with orange paper boards and gilt lettering on front (author initials) and spine. Copy is fine but downgraded to good plus due to PO name on flyleaf and footband. Jacket, now protected with removable mylar cover is clipped and has wear to bottom corner as well as a 0.75 in. cut on back of jacket. Inscribed and dated 8/28/82 on half title page by author. Ms. Angelou (1928-2014) published seven autobiographies, this being the third. Starting with a job working for a white women in a record shop the story moves to a marriage to a white customer to working as a "shake" dancer in sleazy bars to signing in popular nightclubs to becoming a featured dancer in Porgy and Bess. Porgy and Bess was the 1959 Musical that won the Academy Award for Best Origina Musical and starred Sidney Poitier (Porgy), Dorathy Dandridge (Bess), Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey, Claude Akins, Nichelle Nichols, Maya Angelou. 5.75x8.5 in. 269 pg.
Synopsis
In this third self-contained volume of her autobiography, which began with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou moves into the adult world, and the white world as well, as she marries, enters show business, and tours Europe and Africa in Porgy and Bess.As the book opens, Maya, in order to support herself and her young son, gets a job in a record shop run by a white woman. Suspicious of almost any kindness shown her, she is particularly confused by the special attentions of a young white customer. Soon the relationship grows into love and then marriage, and Maya believes a permanent relationship is finally possible. But it is not to be, and she is again forced to look for work.This time she finds a job as a dancer in a sleazy San Francisco bar. Her remarkable talent, however, soon brings her attention of a different kind, and before long she is singing in one of the most popular nightclubs on the coast. From there, she is called to New York to join the cast of Porgy and Bess, which is just about to begin another tour abroad.The troupe's joyous and dramatic adventure through Italy, France, Greece, Yugoslavia, and Egypt becomes the centerpiece of Singin' and Swingin'. This remarkable portrayal of one of the most exciting and talented casts ever put together, and of the encounters between these larger-than-life personalities and audiences who had rarely seen black people before, makes a hilarious and poignant story. The excitement of the journey -- full of camaraderie, love affairs, and memorable personalities -- is dampened only by Maya's nagging guilt that she has once again abandoned the person she loves most in life, her son.Back home, and driven close to suicide by her guilt and concern, she takes her son with her to Hawaii, where she discovers that devotion and love, in spite of forced absence, have the power to heal and sustain.As always, Maya Angelou's writing is charged with that remarkable sense of life and love and unique celebration of the human condition that have won her such a loyal following.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Lamplighter Library
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 206
- Title
- Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas
- Author
- Maya Angelou
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Fourth
- ISBN 10
- 0394405455
- ISBN 13
- 9780394405452
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1976
- Pages
- 269
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Autobiography
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