You can't keep a good woman down / stories by Alice Walker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walker, Alice, 1944- author.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Penn Sexuality Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Women.

Women--Social life and customs.

Short stories.

Genre:

Fiction.

Short stories.

short stories.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

x pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 167 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1981]

Summary:

Fourteen short stories by the Pulitzer Prize winning author about strong women--their struggles and joys.

Contents:

Nineteen Fifty-five

How did I get away with killing one of the biggest lawyers in the state? It was easy.

Elethia

The lover

Petunias

Coming apart

Fame

The abortion

Porn

Advancing Luna-and Ida B. Wells

Laurel

A letter of the times, or should this sado-masochism be saved

A sudden trip home in the spring

Source.

Notes:

"Jacket design by Bascove"

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center.

Other Format:

Online version: Walker, Alice, 1944- You can't keep a good woman down.

ISBN:

0151997543 :

9780151997541

0156997789

9780156997782

015602862X

9780156028622

OCLC:

7177726