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Maya Angelou has fascinated, moved, and inspired countless readers with her unforgettable books. In the bestseller, "Even the Stars Look Lonesome" -- a glorious continuation of Wouldn't Take Nothing For My Journey Now -- she shares more vital lessons gleaned from intimate personal experiences and revealing insights into a wide variety of subjects. "I write about being a black American woman, but I'm always talking about what it's like to be a human being. This is how we are, this is what makes us laugh, and this is how we fall and how we somehow, amazingly, stand up again".
In a unique, spellbinding way, "Even the Stars Look Lonesome" is pure Maya Angelou, a must-read for all of her admirers and followers.
Synopsis
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "Maya Angelou writes like a song, and like the truth."--The New York Times Book Review "Everything about Maya Angelou is transcendental. She has something to tell you now. Listen."--Robert Fulghum, The Washington Post Book World
I have written of the black American experience, which I know intimately. I am always talking about the human condition in general and about society in particular. What it is like to be human, and American, what makes us weep, what makes us fall and stumble and somehow rise and go on.
The compelling wisdom and deeply felt perceptions of Maya Angelou have been cherished by millions of readers. Now, in a continuation of her bestseller Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now, she shares many of her most treasured personal experiences, reflecting on the ideas and inspirations that have touched her heart. Even the Stars Look Lonesome is a profound series of essays that explores aspects of life both big and small, with Maya Angelou serving as the unique, spellbinding guide to a powerful spiritual journey.
About the Author
Maya Angelou has written five volumes of autobiography, including the bestselling
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and many collections of poetry, as well as
On the Pulse of Morning, the poem she read at the inauguration of President William Jefferson Clinton. All of these poems have been gathered together in
The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou.
Maya Angelou is currently Reynolds Professor at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Also by Maya Angelou
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Gather Together in My Name
Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas
The Heart of a Woman
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
POETRY
Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie
Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well
And Still I Rise
Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?
I Shall Not Be Moved
On the Pulse of Morning
Phenomenal Woman
The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou
A Brave and Startling Truth
ESSAYS
Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
From the Trade Paperback edition.