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Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas

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By Maya Angelou
Publisher Random House Publishing Group - (Bantam)
Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas
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Here Maya Angelou, dazzling entertainer, casts the spotlight on her show business career a pageant of international scope. Maya, the woman, shares her sad, failed marriage to a white man, her early motherhood and achingly sensitive relationship with her young son, and her bonedeep, painful suspicion of the white world that welcomes her talent so dramatically ...

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79837 words79,837 words
256 pages256 pages
Lexile 930LLexile 930L
Grade 7 to 11Grade 7 to 11
Published 1977Published 1977

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Book ISBN:

9780553251999

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