Gathering Blossoms Under Fire
The Journals of Alice Walker
- Paperback
560 pages
- Release Date
12 April 2022
Summary
‘These journals are a revelation, a road map and a gift to us all’ TAYARI JONES, author of An American Marriage
From the acclaimed author Alice Walker - winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize - comes an unprecedented compilation of four decades’ worth of journals that draw an intimate portrait of her development as an artist, intellectual and human rights activist.
In Gathering Blossoms Under Fire, Walker offers a passionate…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780297608394 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0297608398 |
| Author: | Alice Walker, Valerie Boyd |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 560 |
| Release Date: | 12 April 2022 |
| Weight: | 720g |
| Dimensions: | 232mm x 152mm x 42mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
One of the most haunting books you could ever wish to read … it is stunning - moving, exciting, and wonderful
THE COLOR PURPLE is a lush celebration of all that it means to be female, to be a black female and like the best of celebrations, it is an honest one … combative, relentless and redemptiveAbout The Author
Alice Walker
ALICE WALKER, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, is a canonical figure in American letters. She is the author of The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar, Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful, The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart, Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart and many other works of fiction, poetry and nonfiction. Her writings have been translated into more than two dozen languages, and more than fifteen million copies of her books have been sold worldwide.
VALERIE BOYD is author of the critically acclaimed biography Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston, winner of the Southern Book Award and the American Library Association’s Notable Book Award. She is founder and director of the MFA Program in Narrative Nonfiction and the Charlayne Hunter-Gault professor of journalism at the University of Georgia. She is editor-at-large at the University of Georgia Press and senior consulting editor for The Bitter Southerner.
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