A Song Flung Up to Heaven-Fast Shipping

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The culmination of a unique achievement in modern American literature: the six volumesof autobiography that began more than thirty years ago with the appearance of
I KnowWhy the Caged Bird Sings.

A Song Flung Up to Heaven opens as Maya Angelou returnsfrom Africa to the United States to work with Malcolm X. But first she has to journeyto California to be reunited with her mother and brother. No sooner does she arrivethere than she learns that Malcolm X has been assassinated.

Devastated, she triesto put her life back together, working on the stage in local theaters and even conductinga door-to-door survey in Watts. Then Watts explodes in violence, a riot she describesfirsthand.

Subsequently, on a trip to New York, she meets Martin Luther King, Jr.,who asks her to become his coordinator in the North, and she visits black churchesall over America to help support King’s Poor People’s March.

But once again tragedystrikes. King is assassinated, and this time Angelou completely withdraws from theworld, unable to deal with this horrible event. Finally, James Baldwin forces herout of isolation and insists that she accompany him to a dinner party—where the ideafor writing
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is born. In fact,
A Song Flung Up toHeaven ends as Maya Angelou begins to write the first sentences of
Caged Bird.