Letter to My Daughter

Author: Angelou, MayaBrand: Random House Trade PaperbacksColor: WhiteEdition: First Random House Tradeback EditionFeatures: Used Book in Good ConditionBinding: PaperbackNumber Of Pages: 192Release Date: 27-10-2009Part Number: 9780812980035Details: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Maya Angelou shares her path to living well and with meaning in this absorbing book of personal essays. Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter 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 greate