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The complete stories

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'Stories are, after all, like a thumbprint. Unique to the soul and heart they are by creation attached'Comprising two volumes - In Love and Trouble and You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down - The Complete stories is a rich smorgasbord of tales that showcases three decades of the author's work.

They show the immense range of Alice Walker's talent, from humour to stories of love, race and politics, reaffirming her position as one of the most important writers of the past 50 years.

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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
0753819074 / 9780753819074
Paperback / softback
813.54
17/02/2005
United Kingdom
English
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ix, 290 p.
20 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: London: Women's, 1994.
The Color Purple has sold over 1 million copies in the UK alone and won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award 'This collection of stories is marvellous as Alice Walker pokes and probes to get to the heart of what it means to be black, what it means to be a woman, what it means to be human. It is the universal qualities in these stories that makes them so strong and so moving. Walker writes superbly' Publishers Weekly 'Walker writes with humour, compassion, and an anger that is muted, eliminating any polemic tone' Booklist 'You should meet Alice Walker, the gutsy, quirky, funny author of t
The Color Purple has sold over 1 million copies in the UK alone and won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award 'This collection of stories is marvellous as Alice Walker pokes and probes to get to the heart of what it means to be black, what it means to be a woman, what it means to be human. It is the universal qualities in these stories that makes them so strong and so moving. Walker writes superbly' Publishers Weekly 'Walker writes with humour, compassion, and an anger that is muted, eliminating any polemic tone' Booklist 'You should meet Alice Walker, the gutsy, quirky, funny author of t FYB Short stories