Gathering Blossoms Under Fire
The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965-2000
Waterville, ME : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, [2022]
Format: Large Print
Edition: Unabridged Large Print edition.
Description: 821 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
"For the first time, the edited journals of Alice Walker are gathered together to reflect the complex, passionate, talented, and acclaimed Pulitzer Prize winner of The Color Purple. She intimately explores her thoughts and feelings as a woman, a writer, an African-American, a wife, a daughter, a mother, a lover, a sister, a friend, a citizen of the world. In an unvarnished and singular voice, she explores an astonishing array of events: marching in Mississippi with other foot soldiers of the Civil Rights Movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr.; her marriage to a Jewish lawyer, defying laws that barred interracial marriage in the 1960s South; an early miscarriage; writing her first novel; the trials and triumphs of the Women's Movement; erotic encounters and enduring relationships; the ancestral visits that led her to write The Color Purple; winning the Pulitzer Prize; being admired and maligned, sometimes in equal measure, for her work and her activism; and burying her mother. A powerful blend of Walker's personal life with political events, this revealing collection offers rare insight into a literary legend." -- Provided by publisher.
Series: Thorndike Press large print Black voices.
Contents:
Marriage, movement, and Mississippi, the 1960s -- The nature of this flower is to bloom, the 1970s -- Be nobody's darling, the 1980s -- You can't keep a good woman down, the 1990s.
Subjects:
Walker, Alice, 1944- -- Diaries.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Diaries.
African American women authors -- Diaries.
Social reformers -- United States -- Diaries.
Large type books.
Authors, American -- Southern states.
Walker, Alice, 1944- -- Diaries.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Diaries.
African American women authors -- Diaries.
Social reformers -- United States -- Diaries.
Large type books.
Authors, American -- Southern states.
ISBN:
9781432897987
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LP LITERATURE Wal | St. Andrews Indoors | Large Print Nonfiction | Out (Due: 4/25/2024) |
LP LITERATURE Wal | St. Andrews Indoors | Large Print Nonfiction | In |