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Living by the word : selected writings, 1973-1987 / Alice Walker.
Van Pelt Library PS3573.A425 A6 1988
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Walker, Alice, 1944-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Walker, Alice, 1944---Family.
- Walker, Alice.
- Walker, Alice, 1944-.
- African American women--Social conditions.
- African American women.
- African American women--Literary collections.
- Families.
- American essays--20th century.
- American essays.
- Genre:
- Literary collections.
- Literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, xxi pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 196 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1988.
- Summary:
- The The Color Purple meditates on planetary concerns as well as on feminist and political issues in her most deeply spiritual work yet. She writes of our intimate connection with nature, focuses on racial questions, reports on trips to China, Bali, and Jamaica, and more.
- Contents:
- Journal (April 17, 1984)
- Am I Blue?
- Father
- Trying to See My Sister
- The Dummy in the Window
- Longing to Die of Old Age
- The Old Artist
- My Big Brother Bill
- Journal (August 1984)
- Coming In from the Cold
- Oppressed Hair Puts a Ceiling on the Brain
- Dear Joanna
- In the Closet of the Soul
- Journal (August 1983, October 1983, January 1984)
- A Name is Sometimes an Ancestor Saying Hi, I'm with You
- A Thousand Words
- Journey to Nine Miles
- My Daughter Smokes
- On Seeing Red
- Journal (Feburary 12, 1987)
- Not Only Will Your Teachers Appear, They Will Cook New Foods for You
- Everything is a Human Being
- "Nobody was Supposed to Survive"
- All the Bearded Irises of Life
- Why Did the Balinese Chicken Cross the Road?
- Journal (June, September 1987)
- The Universe Responds.
- Notes:
- "Designed by Janet S. Taggart based on a design by Joy Chu."
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
- Banks Collection copy is "First edition".
- Banks Collection copy has two book reviews cut from newspaper laid in.
- ISBN:
- 0151529000 :
- OCLC:
- 16951340
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