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Gathering Blossoms Under Fire
The Journals of Alice Walker
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‘These journals are a revelation, a road map and a gift to us all’ – Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage ‘Walker writes beautifully about the push and pull of intimacy . . . You find yourself admiring her idealism, her gift as a writer...
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The unseen journals of Alice Walker - literary icon and author of The Color Purple
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‘These journals are a revelation, a road map and a gift to us all’ – Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage
‘Walker writes beautifully about the push and pull of intimacy . . . You find yourself admiring her idealism, her gift as a writer and her abundant appetite for life’ – The Telegraph
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple, Gathering Blossoms Under Fire presents four decades' worth of personal journals to offer a passionate, intimate record of Alice Walker's intellectual, artistic and political development.
Walker writes in an unvarnished and singular voice about an astonishing array of events: marching in Mississippi with civil rights foot soldiers, marrying a Jewish lawyer and defying 1960s anti-interracial marriage laws, writing her first novel, experiencing the trials and triumphs of the women's movement, being both admired and maligned for her work and activism, burying her mother and estrangement from her daughter. Her journals reveal an inextricable intertwining of the personal and political, exploring her thoughts and feelings in real time as a woman, writer, African American, wife, daughter, mother, lover, sister, friend and citizen of the world.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781780228273
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 03 April 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Contributors:
- Edited by Valerie Boyd
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 36.0mm
Width: 126.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 412g
Pages: 560
About the Author
ALICE WALKER, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, is a canonical figure in American letters. She is the author of The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar, Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful, The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart, Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart and many other works of fiction, poetry and nonfiction. Her writings have been translated into more than two dozen languages, and more than fifteen million copies of her books have been sold worldwide.
VALERIE BOYD was the author of the critically acclaimed biography Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston, winner of the Southern Book Award and the American Library Association's Notable Book Award. She was the founder and director of the MFA Program in Narrative Nonfiction and the Charlayne Hunter-Gault professor of journalism at the University of Georgia. She was editor-at-large at the University of Georgia Press and senior consulting editor for The Bitter Southerner.Also by Alice Walker
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The Color Purple by Alice Walker is an iconic classic of modern American literature, awarded the Pulitzer Prize for its groundbreaking narrative. This deeply moving novel takes readers on an unforgettable journey through the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. The story revolves around the resilient and indomitable Celie, who is trapped in a life of...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableBackorderShips late August -
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Meridian by Alice Walker is a profound and evocative novel that immerses readers in the life of Meridian Hill, a brilliant and inquisitive young woman hailing from a working-class Black family in the American South. Set against the vivid and turbulent backdrop of the 1960s civil rights movement, the story unfolds with Meridian facing numerous struggles from an early age....Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
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In Now is the Time to Open Your Heart, Alice Walker masterfully crafts a modern odyssey centred around Kate, a seasoned author and perennial seeker. Kate’s life has been filled with the richness of exploration—through her writings, multiple marriages, and relentless wanderings. Having always been a true wanderer at heart, she now finds herself at the threshold of aging and...Paperback$3199Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
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Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker is a powerful and heartrending narrative that explores the complexities of cultural identity and the personal repercussions of traditional practices. It follows the poignant and compelling story of Tashi, an African woman caught in the crossfire of her native traditions and the contrasting Western values she encounters in America. As Tashi navigates...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
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