Admirers of The Color Purple will find in these stories more evidence of Walker’s power to depict black women-women who vary greatly in background yet are bound together. “One of the most important, grieving, graceful, and honest writers ever to come into print” (June Jordan).
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Best-selling novelist ALICE WALKER is the author of five other novels, five collections of short stories, six collections of essays, seven volumes of poetry, including the most recent Hard Times Require Furious Dancing, and several children’s books. Her books have been translated into more than two dozen languages.
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Alice Walker is one of the most prolific writers of our time, known for her literary fiction, including the Pultizer Prize-winning The Color Purple, her many volumes of poetry, and her powerful nonfiction collections. Walker's most recent book is The Chicken Chronicles, a memoir. Her advocacy for the dispossessed has spanned the globe. She lives in Northern California.
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Something I'll read over and over again...loved it,
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A collection of short stories that I first read for a Black Literature class when I was in college in the '70....and here recently, shared it with my book club as our book of the month. Ms. Walker's writing style makes you feel you are right there with the character. While each story presents different experiences of African-American women, women of all nationalities will be able to relate to the stories and the emotions. It's a fast paced book that is heart-warming, amusing, sad,....every emotion is touched.
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book that talks to the soul,
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My son asked me to read a short story by Alice Walker. He was analyzing different writing styles for a writing class. I was pleasantly taken back by the way she uses certain details to communicated to those of us who are not literature major's. I bought several of her books. In reading them I found that she had retained a sense of her Africa culture. Her outlook is hoslitic and circular while most white writers write linear.
The purpose of writing is to communicate and Alice Walker does that. Her writing is not pretentious but humble like the people she writes about. Her writing metaphorically legitimizes being black!
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... Miss Alice never disappoints ...,
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... i hadn't realized that i already owned this book. so after i read and enjoyed it (again) so much, i made it a gift for a good friend and his wife. some of it is very serious but, at the same time it's light reading that is always VERY insightful.
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She dreams; dragging herself across the world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Tante Rosie, Rannie Toomer, Hannah Lou, Grandma Dee, Mordecai Rich, Rannie Mae, Aunt Sarah, Bronx Zoo, Miss Mary New!
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She dreams; dragging herself across the world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Tante Rosie, Rannie Toomer, Hannah Lou, Grandma Dee, Mordecai Rich, Rannie Mae, Aunt Sarah, Bronx Zoo, Miss Mary New!
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- Revolutionary Petunias by Alice Walker in Front Matter, and page 139
- Living by the Word: Selected Writings, 1973-1987 by Alice Walker in Front Matter, and page 139
- In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose by Alice Walker in Front Matter, and page 139
- Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful by Alice Walker in Front Matter, and page 139
- Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete by Alice Walker in Front Matter, and page 139
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- Everyday Use (Women Writers) by Alice Walker on 21 pages
- Critical Essays on Alice Walker: (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies) by Ikenna Dieke on 14 pages
- Alice Walker: Critical Perspectives Past And Present (Amistad Literary Series) by Henry L. Gates on 10 pages
- American Women Short Story Writers: A Collection of Critical Essays (Wellesley Studies in Critical Theory, Literary History and Culture) by Julie Brown on 10 pages
- American Women Short Story Writers: A Collection of Critical Essays (Wellesley Studies in Critical Theory, Literary History and Culture) by Julie Brown on 9 pages
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