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Alice Walker: Collected Poems: Her Blue Body Everything We Know : Earthling Poems 1965-1990 by Alice Walker
Category: Fiction
' I am the woman offering two flowers whose roots are twin. Justice and Hope Hope and Justice Let us begin' Alice Walker has been writing poetry since the summer of 1965, when she travelled to East Africa and began the collection ONCE while sitting beneath a tree facing Mount Kenya. Encompassing the col ...Show more
By the Light of My Father's Smile by Alice Walker
Category: Fiction
'Alice Walker in this, the most beautiful, the most compassionate, the most sensuous of novels, has created a masterpiece. It is one of the most life-enhancing novels you could hope to read. Flawless' - Mary Louden, The Times 'All your life you have the necessary illusion that you know all there is ...Show more
Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker by Alice Walker
Category: Biography
For the first time, the edited journals of Alice Walker are gathered together to reflect the complex, passionate, talented and acclaimed Pulitzer Prize winner of The Color Purple. She intimately explores her thoughts and feelings as a woman, a writer, an African-American, a wife, a daughter, a mother, ...Show more
Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems by Alice Walker
Category: Poetry
Alice Walker sums up the premise and purpose for this year of poems in her Preface: "I was born into a family of eight siblings. I am the youngest. Five of us have died. I share losses, health concerns, and other challenges common to the human condition, especially in these times of war, poverty, enviro ...Show more
In Search of Our Mother's Gardens by Alice Walker
Category: Essays
This first collection of non-fiction, spanning fifteen years, charts the early political development of this leading activist, thinker and novelist. This collection of essays is a celebration of the legacy of creativity - especially the rich vein of women's stories and spirituality through the ages and ...Show more
Meridian by Alice Walker
Category: Fiction
"A classic novel of both feminism and the Civil Rights movement" in 1960s Atlanta by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple (Ms.). As she approaches the end of her teen years, Meridian Hill has already married, divorced, and given birth to a son. She's looking for a second chance, and at ...Show more
Now Is The Time To Open Your Heart : A novel by Alice Walker
Category: Fiction
Kate has always been a wanderer. A well-published author, married several times, she has lived a life full of exploration. Now, as she begins to feel the first ravages of age, she wants to find a sense of meaning in her life. She leaves her lover Yolo on a journey down the Colorado river - a journey tha ...Show more
Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart by Alice Walker
Category: Fiction
Kate has always been a wanderer. A well-published author, married several times, she has lived a life full of exploration. Now, as she begins to feel the first ravages of age, she wants to find a new sense of meaning. She leaves her lover Yolo on a journey down the Colorado River - a journey that will f ...Show more
Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker
Category: Fiction
When Alice Walker finished writing The Color Purple she realised that she needed to tell the story of Tashi, a minor character, who had "left Africa but had taken her wound with her to America". This is Tashi's story, told in her words and the voices of the people who loved her. This extraordinarily cou ...Show more