In Love and Trouble : Stories of Black Women

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Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1974-04-01
Publisher(s): Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Summary

Admirers of The Color Purple will find in these stories more evidence of Walker's power to depict black women-women who vary greatly in background yet are bound together. "One of the most important, grieving, graceful, and honest writers ever to come into print" (June Jordan).

Author Biography

Alice Walker is the author of seven novels, three collections of short stories, three collections of essays, seven volumes of poetry, and several children's books. Her novel The Color Purple won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and her work has been translated into more than two dozen languages. Born in Eatonton, Georgia, Walker lives in northern California

Table of Contents

Roselily
3(10)
``Really, Doesn't Crime Pay?''
10(14)
Her Sweet Jerome
24(11)
The Child Who Favored Daughter
35(12)
Everyday Use
47(13)
The Revenge of Hannah Kemhuff
60(21)
The Welcome Table
81(7)
Strong Horse Tea
88(11)
Entertaining God
99(14)
The Diary of an African Nun
113(6)
The Flowers
119(2)
We Drink the Wine in France
121(8)
To Hell with Dying
129

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