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Book Condition: Used Fine
Jacket condition: Fine
ISBN: 0375500723 / 9780375500725
Seller: Fully Booked

Canada
About Item: New York: Random House, Inc. BOOK: Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. A flowering career, a growing son--a powerful personal narrative. JACKET PHOTOGRAPH: Dwight Carter. JACKET DESIGN: Andy Carpenter. SYNOPSIS: In The Heart of a Woman Maya Angelou leaves California with her son, Guy, to go to New York. There she enters the society and world of black artists and writers. Not since her childhood has she lived in an almost black environment, and she is surprised at the obsession her new friends have with the white world around them. She stays for a while with John and Grace Killens and begins to read her writing at the Harem Writers Guild. She continues to sing, most notably at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem, but more and mores he begins to take part in the struggle of black Americans for their rightful place in the world. She helps organize a benefit cabaret for the Southern Christian… Read More
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