Título: Collected Essays, Prose, and Stories
Autor: Alice Walker
Sinopse: Compelling collections of short fiction and essays by the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Color Purple and marvelous writer (San Francisco Chronicle). Whether she is writing fiction or nonfiction, sharing personal reflections or expressing political views, Alice Walker is without question one of [our] best American writers (The Washington Post). The first African American woman to win a Pulitzer Prizefor The Color PurpleWalker is both a committed artist and engaged activist, as reflected in the four works in this volume. Living by the Word: In this entertaining and often stirring follow-up to In Search of Our Mothers Gardens, Walker reflects on issues both personal and global, from her experience with the filming of The Color Purple, to the history of African American narrative traditions, to global threats of pollution and nuclear war (Library Journal). You Cant Keep a Good Woman Down: The women in these consummately skillful short stories face their problems head on, proving powerful and self-possessed even when degraded by otherssometimes by those closest to them (San Francisco Chronicle). But even as the female protagonists face exploitation, social inequalities, and casual cruelties, Walker leavens her stories with ample wit and [enters] their experience with sympathy but without sentimentality (The Washington Post). In Love & Trouble: Walkers debut short fiction collection features stories of women traveling with the weight of broken dreams, with kids in tow, with doubt and regret, with memories of lost loves, with lovers who have their own hard pasts and hard edges. Some from the South, some from the North, some rich, and some poor, the marvelous characters that inhabit In Love & Trouble come away transformed by knowledge and love but most of all by wonder (Essence). In Search of Our Mothers Gardens: In essays both personal and political about her own work and other writers such as Zora Neale Hurston, Flannery OConnor, and Jean Toomer; the Civil Rights Movement; antinuclear activism; feminism; and a childhood injury that left her emotionally scarred and the healing words of her daughter, Walker reflects not only ideas but a life that has breathed color, sound, and soul into fiction and poetryand into our lives as well (San Francisco Chronicle). Includes a new letter written by the author on In Search of Our Mothers Gardens.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Collected Essays, Prose, and Stories”, de Alice Walker, publicado pela editora Open Road Media, em 2018 e com 1012 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Open Road Media
Páginas: 1012
Ano: 2018
Edição:
Linguagem: English
ISBN: 1504056019
ISBN13: 9781504056014
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Open Road Media oferecem uma experiência de leitura marcada pela diversidade temática e narrativa, transitando entre histórias de suspense, fantasia e relatos históricos. O catálogo privilegia tramas densas, muitas vezes com personagens que enfrentam dilemas morais ou situações extremas, como guerras, crimes complexos e conflitos pessoais profundos. Há obras com ritmo intenso e tensão crescente, enquanto outras exploram atmosferas mais sombrias e reflexivas, como em contos de fantasia adulta ou mistérios psicológicos. O material de apresentação indica ainda um interesse por narrativas que mesclam elementos históricos e ficcionais, ampliando o escopo cultural e temporal das obras.
