Giving Birth, Finding Form: Three Writers Explore Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Art [Audiobook, Unabridged] [Audio Cassette]

Alice Walker (Author), Isabel Allende (Author), Jean Shinoda Bolen (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 1993

Giving Birth, Finding Form
By Alice Walker, Isabel Allende, Jean Shinoda Bolen

Three eminent writers and strong women join in this once-in-a-lifetime dialogue about giving birth to life, to love, and to art. Share in this meeting as Alice Walker, Isabel Allendé, and Jean Shinoda Bolen unravel their lives from their books – and illustrate how creativity can kindle the feminine spirit. Using words and stories like brushstrokes, they draw us into the sagas of their lives. We learn how pain, anger, and sorrow give birth to the treasure that is their writing. Giving Birth, Finding Form offers precious words of inspiration for all people struggling to express their creativity – spiced with many stories from the lives of these award-winning writers.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

In an outstanding segment of the "Creative Conversations" series, three world-renowned women authors discuss their lives, books, and the diverse forces that have spawned their many literary productions. Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize winner for the novel The Color Purple ; Isabel Allende, South American journalist and fiction writer; and Jean Shinoda Bolen, psychiatrist and professor, mesh their remarks beautifully in a moving, fluid, and colorful dialog (these women are funny ). They tell how pain, abandonment, grief, violence, anger, and also joy and love have been catalytic to their creative writings. They also describe other influential factors such as the collective female unconscious, clairvoyance, witnessing, time alone, and being born "different." Their priceless words promote the bonding of everywoman and provide for a deeper understanding of the creative process. For general audiences and women's studies, creative studies, and literature collections.
- Barbara J. Vaughan, State Univ. Coll. at Buffalo Lib., N.Y.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Book Description

Revealing how pain, anger, and sorrow gave birth to their writing, Walker, Allende, and Bolen illustrate how creativity can kindle the feminine spirit. Highly recommended for listeners who are struggling to express their creativity. Recorded live.

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Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Sounds True, Incorporated (June 1, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1564552454
• ISBN-13: 978-1564552457
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 4.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,017,436 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tea for Four, January 26, 2002

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Nanci "Book Dragon" (Tri-Cities, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Giving Birth, Finding Form: Three Writers Explore Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Art (Audio Cassette)

Listening to this tape is like sitting across the table having tea with these three wise and wonderful women. They bring their insights into life from different cultures, and yet show how much we all share. You will absolutely love this tape. Listening to any one of these women is a fabulous experience, and here that is compounded.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Uplifting and enjoyable, December 16, 1997

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This review is from: Giving Birth, Finding Form: Three Writers Explore Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Art (Audio Cassette)

One does not have to be Alice Walker's, Isabel Allende's or Jean Bolan's admirer to listen to this tape. The language, sincerity and humor are simply irresistable. I would recommend this tape to everyone - not only women. Men can learn a lot from these three wonderful writers.