2002
A SONG FLUNG UP TO HEAVEN
Maya Angelou
Chart History
5 weeks on the Hardcover Nonfiction list, peaking at #5
"A Song Flung Up to Heaven" opens as Maya Angelou returns from Africa to the United States to work with Malcolm X and later Martin Luther King, Jr., who are both soon assassinated. Devastated, she tries to put her life back together. This book ends as Angelou begins to write the first sentences of "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings."
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Details
- ISBN-13
- 9785559609034
- ISBN-10
- 555960903X
- Published
- 2002
- Pages
- 274
- Publisher
- Random House
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