In Love And Trouble: Stories Of Black Women (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) [School & Library Binding]

Alice Walker (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 2004

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.

Editorial Reviews

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PRAISE FOR IN LOVE & TROUBLE
“One of the most important, graceful, and honest writers ever to come into print . . .
This is a powerful, big, even a wild book.”—JUNE JORDAN, a u t h o r o f KISSING GOD GOODBYE

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Readers of Alice Walker's The Color Purple will find in these stories further evidence of her power to depict black women-women who vary greatly in background but are bound together by their vulnerability to life: Roselily, on her wedding day, surrounded by her four children, prays that a loveless marriage will bring her respectability; a young writer, exploited by both her lover and her husband, wreaks an ironic vengeance; a jealous wife, looking for her husband's mistress, finds a competitor she cannot fight; an old woman, thrown out of a white church, meets God on a highway. These are just a few of the seekers of dignity and love whom Alice Walker portrays in this astonishing collection.

"Alice Walker is one of the best American writers of today."--The Washington Post

"Walker dares to reveal truths about men and women, about blacks and whites, about God and love. . . . And we, like Alice Walker's marvelous characters, come away transformed by knowledge and love but most of all by wonder."--Essence

Alice Walker is the author of seven novels, three collections of short stories, three collections of essays, seven volumes of poetry, and several children's books. Her novel The Color Purple won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and her work has been translated into more than two dozen languages. Born in Eatonton, Georgia, Walker lives in northern California.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• School & Library Binding: 138 pages
• Publisher: Turtleback (May 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1417632828
• ISBN-13: 978-1417632824
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,142,400 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

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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24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Something I'll read over and over again...loved it, February 5, 1999

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VIM (Maryland USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women (Paperback)

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.

7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars book that talks to the soul, January 16, 2006

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Frank Delgado "Frank Delgado 'average guy" (portland, OR) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women (Paperback)

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!

5.0 out of 5 stars ... Miss Alice never disappoints ..., January 9, 2012

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Steven W. Brown "Old Billy-Goat" (Rio Vista, California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women (Paperback)

... 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.