In Search of Our Mother's Gardens by Alice Walker - ISBN: 9780753819609
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Unearth women’s hidden creativity: a powerful legacy blooming through generations.

In Search of Our Mother's Gardens

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  • Paperback

    400 pages

  • Release Date

    1 February 2006

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Summary

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 how they nourish the present. Alice Walker traces the umbilical thread linking writers through history – from her discovery of Zora Neale Hurston and her collections of black folklore, to the work of Jean Toomer, Buchi Emecheta and Flannery O’Connor. She also looks back at the highs and lows of the civil rights movement, her early political…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780753819609
ISBN-10:0753819600
Author:Alice Walker
Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
Imprint:Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:400
Release Date:1 February 2006
Weight:289g
Dimensions:198mm x 131mm x 27mm
About The Author

Alice Walker

Alice Walker won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for The Color Purple. She is the author of many bestselling novels, essays and collections of poetry including Meridian, By the Light of My Father’s Smile and The Third Life of Grange Copeland.

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