Letter to My Daughter |
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| Title: | Letter to My Daughter |
| Author: | Maya Angelou |
| Publisher: | Random House |
| Type: | Book / Hardcover |
| Publication Date: | 23 September, 2008 |
| ISBN / ISBN-13: | 1400066123 / 9781400066124 |
| List Price: | $25.00 |
| You Save: | $8.50 |
| Amazon Price: | $16.50 |
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Editorial Review / Publisher's Information:
Product Description
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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Customer Reviews:
• Letter To My Daughter
09 January, 2010
My experience when reading any of Maya Angelou's work,is always
good. This book is short and sweet. Filled with lots of information
in reference to Ms Angelou's life. I recommend ( 5 stars )this book.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Just 82 Pages Of Text
29 December, 2009
Just 82 pages of text makes this "book" practically an essay. I enjoyed the content (thank you Maya) but was a little disappointed that there was not more. All 28 chapters are proceeded by 2-3 blank pages. For $15 I can't help but feel a little jipped. Might be the book to borrow from the library- a few hours and you are through it.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Ok
01 March, 2010
Ok I wanted more from this book it could have been so much better seller was good
- Amazon Customer Review
• Another Good One By A Living Legend
17 February, 2010
Letters to my daughter was a great read and i enjoyed reading with my youn daughter and we both got a lot from it. i am a big fan of hers and she never lets me down. She is a living Legend. I also love " why do caged birds sing".
- Amazon Customer Review
• Not As Heavy In The Lecturing As Some Of Her Books.
09 March, 2010
I was disappointed there was not a daughter, but premise is okay.
Interesting background of author-pretty horrible a couple times.
I admire her tenacity, maybe got some of that from her mother. Still,
she was odd. It would have probably have answered questions that arouse
during the reading, if the author explained her mothers behavior more.
A lack of responsibility bothered me a little. The poetry section was
good. Angelou's preachy tendencies were less apparent than in other books.
All in all it was okay.
- Amazon Customer Review
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