For a world of devoted fans, 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

Letter to My Daughter
- Used Book in Good Condition
For a world of devoted fans, 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 Angelouâ€™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 â€œlifelong endeavor,â€ or simply singing the praises of a meal of red riceâ€“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, and share.

â€œI 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.â€

â€“from Letter to My Daughter

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permissionÂ to reprint previously published material:

Mari Evans:Â Excerpt from â€œI Am A Black Womanâ€ from I Am A Black Woman by Mari Evans (New York:Â William Morrow, 1970).Â Reprinted by permission of Mari Evans.

Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. and Harold Ober Associates:Â â€œI, Tooâ€ and â€œDream Variationsâ€ from The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes, edited by Arnold Rampersad with David Russell, Associate Editor, copyright Â© 1994 by the Estate of Langston Hughes.Â Rights in the United Kingdom are controlled by Harold Ober Associates.Â Reprinted by permission of Harold Ober Associates.

Melvin B. Tolson, Jr. c/o The Permissions Company:Â Excerpt from â€œDark Symphonyâ€ from Rendezvous With America (New York:Â Dodd, Mead, 1944).Â Originally published in Atlantic Monthly (September, 1941), copyright Â© 1941, 1944 by Melvin B. Tolson and copyright renewed 1968, 1972 by Ruth S. Tolson.Â Reprinted by permission of Melvin B. Tolson, r. c/o The Permissions Company, www.permissionscompany.com.
Country USA
Brand Random House Audio
Manufacturer Random House Audio
Binding Audio CD
ReleaseDate 2008-09-23
UnitCount 2
Format Audiobook
EANs 9780739370384

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Audio
Manufacturer	Random House Audio
Binding	Audio CD
ReleaseDate	2008-09-23
UnitCount	2
Format	Audiobook
EANs	9780739370384

Letter to My Daughter

You might also like...