In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women (Harvest Book) - Softcover

Walker, Alice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 015644450X ISBN 13: 9780156444507

Publisher: Harvest Books, 1974

Synopsis

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. “One of the most important, grieving, graceful, and honest writers ever to come into print” (June Jordan).

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Review

PRAISE FOR IN LOVE & TROUBLE
"One of the most important, graceful, and honest writers ever to come into print . . .
This is a powerful, big, even a wild book."--JUNE JORDAN, a u t h o r o f KISSING GOD GOODBYE
PRAISE FOR IN LOVE & TROUBLE
One of the most important, graceful, and honest writers ever to come into print . . .
This is a powerful, big, even a wild book. JUNE JORDAN, a u t h o r o f KISSING GOD GOODBYE
"

PRAISE FOR IN LOVE & TROUBLE
One of the most important, graceful, and honest writers ever to come into print . . .
This is a powerful, big, even a wild book. JUNE JORDAN, a u t h o r o f KISSING GOD GOODBYE
"

PRAISE FOR IN LOVE & TROUBLE
"One of the most important, graceful, and honest writers ever to come into print . . .
This is a powerful, big, even a wild book."--JUNE JORDAN, a u t h o r o f KISSING GOD GOODBYE

From the Back Cover

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvest Books
• Publication date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 015644450X
• ISBN 13: 9780156444507
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 156