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开 本: 32开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 精装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9781400066124
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
“It’s a book to give to one’s daughter, mother, son or father,
but definitely one to be read and savored.”—Baltimore Sun
“Sound advice, vivid memory and strong opinion . . . What is
clear is that [Maya] Angelou is, all these years later, still a
charmer, still speaking her mind.”—Washington Post Book World
“A slim volume packed with nourishing nuggets of wisdom . . .
Overarching each brief chapter is the vital energy of a woman
taking life’s measure with every step.”—Kirkus Reviews
“Written in Angelou’s beautiful, poetic style, the essays feel
like warm advice from a beloved aunt or grandmother, whose wisdom
you know was earned.”—Fredericksburg Free Lance—Star
“Spellbinding . . . Angelou delivers with her signature passion
and fire. . . . Each [essay] delivers a powerful message.”—Rocky
Mountain News
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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