A song flung up to Heaven ( Editura: Virago Books, Autor: Maya Angelou ISBN 1-86049-955-4 )

It is 1964 and MAYA ANGELOU is on her way home, leaving behind her beloved son Guy to finish university in Ghana. America is pulsing with the challenge of chance, the civil rights movements is in full swing and that's where Maya Angelou wants to be, working alongside her friends Malcom X and Martin Luther King.
In this marvellous account Maya Angelou provides, with her customary wisdom, compassion and wit, a first-hand record of an extraordinarily exciting and tragic political period. She writes too of ''Jimmy'' Baldwin. Eldridge Cleaver and of friends and family, and finishes with the beginnings of her career as one of America's most impressive writers of memoir.