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作者:MayaAngelou
出版时间:2008-9
书籍简介:
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
作者简介:
玛雅·安吉洛（1928.4.4-2014.5.28)，黑人女性文学传统构建者，20世纪美国文坛上最具影响力的女性作家之一。
安吉洛成长在女性不受待见而黑人受尽岐视的年代，且半生坎坷——她三岁时父母离异，由奶奶抚养长大，七岁半被强暴，十七岁成为单身母亲；迫于生活压力做过电车售票员、脱衣舞女、厨师、销售、文员等各种工作。
但随后几十年，玛雅·安吉洛以自传和诗歌发出黑人女性的呼声——她的写作生涯超过50年，出版了十几部诗集，成为同时代获得荣誉和奖项最多的作家之一，另获三十多个荣誉学位，被誉为“美国国宝”“世界上最了不起的女性之一”。2011年，奥巴马授予玛雅·安吉洛“总统自由勋章”，这是美国对公民的最高奖励。
