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

LIBRA PS3573.A425 Y6 1981 copy 2
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LIBRA - Rare PS3573.A425 Y6 1981 Banks copy
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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

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