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Living by the Word: Essays
Living by the Word: Essays
Living by the Word: Essays
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Essays from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple—Vintage Alice Walker: passionate, political, personal, and poetic” (Los Angeles Times).
  In a follow-up to her collection of essays, In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens, Walker takes a look at a vast range of issues both personal and global, from her experience with the filming of The Color Purple, to the history of African-American narrative traditions, to global threats of pollution and nuclear war. Walker travels broadly and maintains an eye for detail, resulting in a captivating journey of conscience by one of the most distinctive political and artistic voices in America. Readers will find inspiration and insights in even the briefest entries of this enthralling anthology. 
  This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alice Walker including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateNov 22, 2011
ISBN9781453224076
Living by the Word: Essays
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Alice Walker

Alice Walker is an internationally celebrated writer, poet, and activist whose books include seven novels, four collections of short stories, five children’s books, and several volumes of essays and poetry. She has received the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and the National Book Award, and has been honored with the O. Henry Award, the Lillian Smith Award, and the Mahmoud Darwish Literary Prize for Fiction. She was inducted into the California Hall of Fame and received the Lennon Ono Peace Award. Her work has been published in forty languages worldwide.

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