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.
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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.
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