In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women: Debut Literary Short Stories of Black Women – Courageous Tales of Hope - Softcover

Walker, Alice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156028638 ISBN 13: 9780156028639

Verlag: Mariner Books, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

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 by what they share in
common.Taken as a whole, their stories form an enlightening,
disturbing view of life in the South.

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ALICE WALKER is an internationally celebrated writer, poet, and activist whose books include seven novels, four collections of short stories, four children’s books, and volumes of essays and poetry. She won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in 1983 and the National Book Award.

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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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Mariner Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0156028638
• ISBN 13: 9780156028639
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 154
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