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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 818.5409
EAN: 9781400066124
ISBN: 1400066123
Label: Random House
Manufacturer: Random House
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: September 23, 2008
Publisher: Random House
Release Date: September 23, 2008
Sales Rank: 66
Studio: Random House
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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 Daughter
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I read the reviews here as well as NPR radio and bought the book. It is completely disappointing. I did not find anything inspiring in stories such as the types of 'I drank cockroach with coffee so you better be blessed when you drink a normal one'.
Do not buy it - you wont learn anything from it.
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Maya Angelou has written with warmth and wisdom in "Letter to my Daughter" Her works are always a welcome addition in our home.
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This book was the first I read on my Kindle. It was a great read with lots of everyday wisdom. I just hate it was such a quick read. I wanted More!
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This book is exactly what I expected it to be and I am very pleased with it. It is currently being passed around among my friends --
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A perfect read. Each short chapter is a little excerpt from her life. The reader is allowed to draw her own conclusions. This was an extremely positive experience for me. There is one paragraph I am especially fond of. "The ship of my life may or may not be sailing on calm and amiable seas. The challenging days of my existence may or may not be bright and promising. Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude. If I insist on being pessimistic, there is ... Read More
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