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Alice Walker

Praise for Possessing The Secret Of Joy

Like The Color Purple, this novel packs an enormous emotional punch... A direct challenge to the times we live in

Guardian

A true confrontation with the hearts of darkness, this is masterful, honourable, and unforgettable storytelling

Cosmopolitan

Walker's delicate narrative gifts have never been better displayed, her depiction of the unbearable never so unflinchingly believable

Daily Telegraph

Like The Color Purple, this novel packs an enormous emotional punch... A direct challenge to the times we live in

Guardian

A true confrontation with the hearts of darkness, this is masterful, honourable, and unforgettable storytelling

Cosmopolitan

Walker's delicate narrative gifts have never been better displayed, her depiction of the unbearable never so unflinchingly believable

Daily Telegraph

Like The Color Purple, this novel packs an enormous emotional punch... A direct challenge to the times we live in

Guardian

A true confrontation with the hearts of darkness, this is masterful, honourable, and unforgettable storytelling

Cosmopolitan

Walker's delicate narrative gifts have never been better displayed, her depiction of the unbearable never so unflinchingly believable

Daily Telegraph

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Articles featuring Alice Walker

Books that defined the 1990s

Books that defined the 1990s

Sandwiched between the Cold War and the War on Terror, the 1990s has been dubbed “the holiday from history” – a decade of relative peace and prosperity, free from the existential angst of previous decades. From J. K. Rowling to Jonathan Coe, Ben Okri to Helen Fielding, here are some of the authors who best captured the decade in words.
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