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.
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.
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Hardback Editions
November 2009 : Hardback
| Title: Letter to My Daughter Author(s): Maya Angelou ISBN: 1-84408-610-0 / 9781844086108 (UK edition) Publisher: Virago Press Ltd Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
September 2008 : Hardback
| Title: Letter to My Daughter Author(s): Maya Angelou ISBN: 1-4000-6612-3 / 978-1-4000-6612-4 (USA edition) Publisher: Random House Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
November 2010 : Paperback
| Title: Letter to My Daughter Author(s): Maya Angelou ISBN: 1-84408-611-9 / 9781844086115 (UK edition) Publisher: Virago Press Ltd Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
October 2009 : Paperback
| Title: Letter to My Daughter Author(s): Maya Angelou ISBN: 0-8129-8003-4 / 978-0-8129-8003-5 (USA edition) Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Audio Editions
September 2008 : Audio CD
| Title: Letter to My Daughter Author(s): Maya Angelou ISBN: 0-7393-7038-3 / 978-0-7393-7038-4 (USA edition) Publisher: Random House Audio Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Other Editions
2009 : Unknown
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September 2008 : Kindle edition
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