The Third Life of Grange Copeland (Paperback)
| Author: Alice Walker | Editor: Andre Bernard |
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN-10: 0156028360
ISBN-13: 9780156028363
Sku: 31111735
Publish Date: 4/10/2007
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(in Inches) 7.75H x 5.25L x 0.75T
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328
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| Driven by the futility of life in the South, a black tenant farmer deserts his wife and son to go North, only to return to Georgia years later where he gains a third chance to free himself from spiritual and social bondage *Author: Walker, Alice *Publication Date: 2003/05/01 *Number of Pages: 318 *Binding Type: Paperback *Language: English *Depth: 0.75 *Width: 5.25 *Height: 7.75 |
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In Alice Walker's first novel, three generations of black sharecroppers struggle to free themselves from oppressive white land owners, and to break the cycle of violence by black men against black women that is only abetted by the injustice and oppression they live under.
In Alice Walker's first novel, three generations of black sharecroppers struggle to free themselves from oppressive white land owners, and to break the cycle of violence by black men against black women that is only abetted by the injustice and oppression they live under.
Author Bio
Alice Walker
Alice Walker's parents were sharecroppers, and she grew up in a small Georgia town. When she was 8, an accident with a BB gun damaged one eye, resulting in a partial loss of sight. She studied at Spelman College on a scholarship for the handicapped, but eventually, in 1965, got her B.A. at Sarah Lawrence. After college, she worked in Georgia registering voters, then with the Head Start program in Mississippi and the welfare department in New York City. She began to write, publishing her first novel, MERIDIAN, which reflected her experiences working in Georgia, in 1967. In that year she also married a civil rights lawyer, whom she divorced ten years later. Walker published two novels, two books of short stories, and a great deal of poetry before THE COLOR PURPLE came out in 1982, followed by Stephen Spielberg's popular film and (in 1983) the Pulitzer Prize. Much of Walker's early writing is autobiographical, drawn from her childhood and activism; in her later years, she calls herself a "womanist" writer, concentrating on sexism as well as racism. She is a tireless spokesperson for the value of African-American traditions and culture, and for the common people who cannot speak for themselves.
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New Yorker
"Almost no one has tried to tell us about the early lives, the INNER early lives of Black people.... Alice Walker is a storyteller." - Robert Coles San Francisco Chronicle
"Alice Walker is exceptionally brave, and takes on subjects at which most writers would flinch and quail..." - Alice Adams Essence
"Walker dares to reveal truths about men and women, about blacks and whites, about God and love.... And we, like Alice Walker's marvelous characters, come away transformed by knowledge and love but most of all by wonder." Salon
"There's a stark, elemental drama to the family struggles Walker depicts in THE THIRD LIFE OF GRANGE COPELAND...that can be compelling despite the clumsiness of her prose." - Laura Miller 08/11/2000
"Almost no one has tried to tell us about the early lives, the INNER early lives of Black people.... Alice Walker is a storyteller." - Robert Coles San Francisco Chronicle
"Alice Walker is exceptionally brave, and takes on subjects at which most writers would flinch and quail..." - Alice Adams Essence
"Walker dares to reveal truths about men and women, about blacks and whites, about God and love.... And we, like Alice Walker's marvelous characters, come away transformed by knowledge and love but most of all by wonder." Salon
"There's a stark, elemental drama to the family struggles Walker depicts in THE THIRD LIFE OF GRANGE COPELAND...that can be compelling despite the clumsiness of her prose." - Laura Miller 08/11/2000
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