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Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart by Alice Walker
Category: Poetry
Alice Walker, author of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple-an American novel of permanent importance (San Francisco Chronicle)-crafts a bilingual collection that is both playfully imaginative and intensely moving. Presented in both English and Spanish, Alice Walker shar ...Show more
The Chicken Chronicles: A Memoir by Alice Walker
Category: Biography
When Alice Walker grew up in the deep south of America, her family always kept chickens - for meat and for eggs - and her job was to chase down the Sunday dinner! In later life, when she settled in Mexico and was growing her own food, she realised how much she missed keeping them and decided to get a br ...Show more
The Chicken Chronicles: Sitting with the Angels Who Have Returned with My Memories: Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, Splendor, Hortensia, Agnes of God, The Gladyses & Babe: A Memoir by Alice Walker
Category: Biography
When Alice Walker grew up in the deep south of America, her family always kept chickens - for meat and for eggs - and her job was to chase down the Sunday dinner! In later life, when she settled in Mexico and was growing her own food, she realised how much she missed keeping them and decided to get a b ...Show more
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Category: Fiction
'One of the most haunting books you could ever wish to read...it is stunning - moving, exciting, and wonderful' Lenny Henry Set in the deep American south between the wars, this is the classic tale of Celie, a young poor black girl. Raped repeatedly by her father, she loses two children and then is marr ...Show more
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Category: Fiction
This book tells the story of Celie. Raped by the man she calls father, her two children taken from her and forced into an ugly marriage, she has no one to talk to but God, until she meets a woman who offers love and support.
The Color Purple by Alice Walker; Kiese Laymon (Foreword by)
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Vitae Ser.
Read the original inspiration for the new, boldly reimagined film from producers Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg, starring Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, and Fantasia Barrino.Celebrate the 40th anniversary of Alice Walker's iconic modern classic.Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book ...Show more
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Category: Fiction
The classic, PULITZER PRIZE-winning novel that made Alice Walker a household name. Set in the deep American South between the wars, The Color Purple is the classic tale of Celie, a young black girl born into poverty and segregation. Raped repeatedly by the man she calls 'father', she has two children t ...Show more
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Category: Fiction
Sisters Celie and Nettie share the pain and struggle of growing up as African American women in early twentieh-century rural Georgia. Forced into an abusive marriage, at least Celie can offer Nettie refuge from their violent father in her new home - until Nettie catches the attention of Celie's husband ...Show more
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Category: Fiction
A special limited edition of nine classic novels produced to coincide with Weidenfeld & Nicolson's 60th anniversary. Designed by the award-winning advertising agency Fallon with special endpapers commissioned from ground-breaking artists. The endpapers for this title have been designed by Carl Klein ...Show more
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Category: Fiction | Series: Hachette Essentials
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this novel about a resilient and courageous woman has become a Broadway show and a cultural phenomenon. A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick Celie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by the society around her and abused by her own fami ...Show more