- Paperback: 156 pages
- Publisher: Harcourt, Inc.; 1 edition (May 15 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0156028638
- ISBN-13: 978-0156028639
- Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 13.6 x 0.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 163 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #678,332 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"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, author of Kissing God Goodbye
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Admirers of The Color Purple will find in these stories more evidence of Walkers power to depict black womenwomen who vary greatly in background yet are bound together by what they share in common.Taken as a whole, their stories form an enlightening, disturbing view of life in the South.
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Dearly Beloved, She dreams; dragging herself across the world. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Something I'll read over and over again...loved it,
By VIM (Maryland USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women (Paperback)
A collection of short stories that I first read for a Black Literature class when I was in college in the '70....and here recently, shared it with my book club as our book of the month. Ms. Walker's writing style makes you feel you are right there with the character. While each story presents different experiences of African-American women, women of all nationalities will be able to relate to the stories and the emotions. It's a fast paced book that is heart-warming, amusing, sad,....every emotion is touched.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Walker learned at the knee of Hurston....,
By princessdiana12@hotmail.com (Orlando, Florida (US)) - See all my reviews
This review is from: In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women (Paperback)
Clearly no ground-breaking storyteller in the mold of Joyce, Ellison, or Hemingway, Walker IS, however, a very entertaining and resourceful author who is able to make up with charm what she lacks in originality and clarity of aesthetic vision. These stories, however, lean too hard against the trunk of Hurston's Eatonville folksy charm to make an indelible impression, and the sordidness which is featured in the narrative remains ill-conceived and dangerously ill-informed. For Walker's simple best, pick up a copy of her "The Color Purple", which remains landmark in its singularity of ambition and revisionistic approach to an otherwise- tired narrative form.
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Something I'll read over and over again...loved it,
By VIM - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women (Paperback)
A collection of short stories that I first read for a Black Literature class when I was in college in the '70....and here recently, shared it with my book club as our book of the month. Ms. Walker's writing style makes you feel you are right there with the character. While each story presents different experiences of African-American women, women of all nationalities will be able to relate to the stories and the emotions. It's a fast paced book that is heart-warming, amusing, sad,....every emotion is touched.
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book that talks to the soul,
By Frank Delgado "Frank Delgado 'average guy" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: In Love & Trouble: Stories Of Black Women (Paperback)
My son asked me to read a short story by Alice Walker. He was analyzing different writing styles for a writing class. I was pleasantly taken back by the way she uses certain details to communicated to those of us who are not literature major's. I bought several of her books. In reading them I found that she had retained a sense of her Africa culture. Her outlook is hoslitic and circular while most white writers write linear.The purpose of writing is to communicate and Alice Walker does that. Her writing is not pretentious but humble like the people she writes about. Her writing metaphorically legitimizes being black!
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... Miss Alice never disappoints ...,
By Steven W. Brown "Old Billy-Goat" - Published on Amazon.com
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... i hadn't realized that i already owned this book. so after i read and enjoyed it (again) so much, i made it a gift for a good friend and his wife. some of it is very serious but, at the same time it's light reading that is always VERY insightful.
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