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Walker continues to challenge readers.
In "Banned" Alice Walker continues to do for her readers what she has done throughout her writing career: challenges us.She challenges our ideas, our perceptions, and our life choices.This is a large part ofwhy her writing is such wonderful literature and excellent teachingmaterial.

To Walker's credit, much of this book is devoted to the ideasof those who oppose the inclusion of her works in state-wide CLAS tests. She could have easily written the book with only opinions in support of herown.However, were she to do that then she would be as guilty as those whooppose her without ever having read her stories in their entirety.

It isunfair to take any piece of art or literature (including the Bible, ofwhich this is often done) and judge its value solely on specific quotestaken out of context.Neither Walker's nor any other artist's brillianceis given justice when this happens.

The story behind the stories
This book is a must read for any serious Walker fan.It tells you a lotabout the war behind the scenes to get books like The Color Purple removedfrom schools and libraries."Banned" is an important companionpiece to Walker's books.The book brought up someissues I'd never thoughtof when I was reading the books.

Banned reveals the complexity of the censorship issue.
Reading is usually a solitary experience -- the reader engaged with the writer's words.That relationship can be enlarged with reading groups and in English classrooms.Banned further expands the relationship between reader and writer.What happens when what we read, or what teachers assign students to read, is challenged as inappropriate?The book's focus is the controversial decision by the California State Board of Education to remove two of Alice Walker's stories, "Roselily" and "Am I Blue?" from the 1994 California Learning Assessment System (CLAS) test.The book includes both stories, as well as an excerpt from The Color Purple, and nearly forty pages of letters to the editor and transcripts of the public hearing held by the California State Board of Education in response to the decision to remove the stories from the CLAS test

"Roselily," a short story of an African-American single mother marrying a Muslim man, and "Am I Blue?" a reflective essay about a woman's musings of her place in the world and the relationships with others in that world, are worthwhile reading in themselves.I found them both to be provocative pieces for different reasons.As a high school English teacher, I would use -- and have used -- both in my classes.Of course, the pieces have characteristics I want my students to learn and possess: voice, passion, writing with a purpose in both fiction and non-fiction forms.They are, indeed, controversial; but shouldn't writing provoke us to not just think about our world, but perhaps, to re-think our place in the world around us?

Banned's focus, however, is not the literary power of Alice Walker, but the power of her ideas.In the nearly forty pages of materials that either support or criticize the Board's decision to pull the pieces from the CLAS test, we witness the heart of the argument between censorship and free speech."Roselily" was attacked as being "anti-religious" while "Am I Blue?" was challenged as being "anti-meat eating."Good argument has both emotion and logic in it; the editorials and the hearing transcripts reveal both the emotion and the logic in the censorship argument.Some of the arguments on both sides are heavily laden with emotion that distort the issue; others use emotional appeals very effectively to help prove their point.Some arguments attack the Board's decision as politically correct and motivated by the wrong reasons.Others reveal that there are clear thinking people on both sides of the issue, people who make a logical defense of their own positions whether in supportive or critical of the California State Board of Education's decision.As one who leans toward the side of free speech and is very cautious about pulling materials from library shelves or from a class reading list, I was impressed with several of the arguments supportive of the Board.

Alice Walker's stories cause us to examine how we live our lives, cause us to question our beliefs, cause us to wonder about our relationships in our world.Similarly, Banned makes us think about what we read, and what we ask our students and our children to read.If you're a teacher, this small book will cause you to think about the readings that we give our students.As a parent, hopefully, you will ask your children what they are reading and what discussions they are having in their classes.As members of a democratic society, we will all ask what we should do with ideas that that may conflict with our own ideas.This book, a book of dialogue, really, about the issue of censorship, should become a focal point for further dialogue.

Alice Walker is wonderful
the story "am i blue" made me cry... the visuals with the horse and believing we are free and kind to animals while we are eating them :-( terrible, i feel just awful and as i put it down, my roommate had just finished cooking our dinner--steaks.i couldn't do it, the book was too powerful and meaningful. ... Read more

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In Anything We Love Can Be Saved, Alice Walker writes about her life as an activist, in a book rich in the belief that the world is saveable, if only we will act. Speaking from her heart on a wide range of topics--religion and the spirit, feminism and race, families and identity, politics and social change--Walker begins with a moving autobiographical essay in which she describes her own spiritual growth and roots in activism. She goes on to explore many important private and public issues: being a daughter and raising one, dreadlocks, banned books, civil rights, and gender communication. She writes about Zora Neale Hurston and Salman Rushdie and offers advice to Bill Clinton. Here is a wise woman's thoughts as she interacts with the world today, and an important portrait of an activist writer's life.Amazon.com Review
Alice Walker, author of The ColorPurple, is an international activist and self-professedwomanist. This pleasing collection of short essays amounts to a verypersonal stroll through her psyche. Sharing touchstones and demons,she serves up a spirited defense of Winnie Mandela, accused of takingpart in kidnapping and torture; a quest to mark the grave of ZoraNeale Hurston, an "African AmerIndian" folklorist whochronicled the lives of Southern American blacks in the 1920s and'30s; poignant, angry witnesses at a conference in Ghana devoted tostopping female genital mutilation; and life lessons her daughtertaught her. Walker's opinions are enriched by her poetry andhighlighted by the whimsical phrases and titles with which she framesserious subjects. ... Read more

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Pagan to its Core!
This is one of the most wonderful books I have ever read.Anybody who wants to know anything about the soul of Paganism should burn all of their "So You Want to be A Wiccan" trash and read Anything We Love Can Be Saved.Walker's connection to the land, to Mother Earth, and to Spirit is as Pagan as it gets.This book is profoundly beautiful, profoundly Pagan.She understands that we belong to this wonderful planet, and that real worship of deity is not possible unless we're free, including free to explore and revel in our sexuality.She understands our connectedness to other animals, the nonhuman ones, and espouses their humane treatment as well.

Hope Doesn't Spring Eternal Without Human Compassion, Desires, and Activism
Alice Walker writes ideas I don't already know, and she gives me new ways of interpreting people. She is worth considering, especially when you think you disagree with her. It is better to engage her in thoughtful debate than to not listen to what she has to say.Ms. Walker did not title this book "Anything I Love Can Be Saved."Importantly, she chose "Anything WE Love Can Be Saved."The book discusses pursuits she has shared with others.

"Now I know that . . .activism is often my muse . . . All we own, at least for the short time we have it, is our life . . . Whenever I experience evil, and it is not, unfortunately, uncommon to experience it in these times, my deepest feeling is disappointment. I have learned to accept the fact that we risk disappointment, disillusionment, even despair, every time we act. Every time we decide to believe the world can be better. Every time we decide to trust others to be as noble as we think they are. And that there might be years during which our grief is equal to, or even greater than, our hope. The alternative, however, not to act, and therefore to miss experiencing other people at their best, reaching toward their fullness, has never appealed to me." pp. xxiv-xxv.

I've spent a good deal of time researching concepts of love. Many people are familiar with Paul's description of love's attributes from 1 Corinthians 13. Alice Walker highlights the next chapter's oppression of women in the verses of 1 Corinthians 14:33-35. "For God is not a God of disorder but of peace. As in all the congregations of the saints, women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the Law says. If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church." I have to agree with Ms. Walker's assertion that the Bible was written by men. And I doubt any intelligent "god" would seek any "peace" that silences women or dictates they become intellectual subordinates to their husbands. As I have grown older, I've found more community and guidance from the voices of women.

"If the women of the world were comfortable, this would be a comfortable world."

To understand what the title of this book might be saying, a person must interpret how Alice Walker is using the word "saved." "Saved" is a word I have trouble with because I grew up in a religious community where a person could only be "saved" by choosing one being and one way.Seeking additional voices or additional community was "fallen" or "depraved." Alice Walker does not appear to be primarily be using the word "saved" in the commonly connotated evangelical "conversion to more enlightened path" sense.She is also not primarily using the word "saved" to promote "possession or acquisition of" another human being.

Ms. Walker emphasizes "saved" in the sense that any person, idea, or object of good character can be remembered, preserved, nourished, grown, and sheltered by love. She says "love and justice and truth are the only monuments that generate everwidening circles of energy and life . . . though trashed and trampled, generation after generation."

She discusses principles of preserving and sharing past loves in relation to recounting how written word efforts and community acknowledgement have honored Zora Neale Hurston, a woman who herself wrote in order to honor and preserve the often concealed, but discretely passed down, African American culture that survived hundreds of years of slavery and discriminatory religious & cultural practices.

Zora also wrote to preserve the memory of specific loves from her personal history. In Zora's work, Alice found a character named Shug, Alice's "outside" grandmother, her grandfather's lover, whose descendant Alice was named after. And if you've read or watched The Color Purple, you are familiar with Shug. There are real people behind most great literary characters.

Alice believes in preserving and sharing the good qualities of those who were unjustly dishonored and have passed from view. Her essay "Anything We Love Can Be Saved" was an address she gave at the the First Annual Zora Neale Hurston Festival in 1990, a festival bringing attention to and honoring the writings of Zora Neal Hurston.Injustice is not overcome through silence.As the subtitle of this book "A Writer's Activism" emphasizes, love is active, notorious, and publicized.The act of love may start "First in their own hearts," but it must be communicated to and shared with "the hearts of others. They have only to make their love inseparable from their belief. And both inseparable from hard work . . . Paying homage to her, memorializing her light, her struggle . . . brought us peace."

Sadness, not Depression
I am a lonely and sad person regularly.I would not describe myself as depressed, because depression too often has a meaning that the person is down due to misunderstanding.My sadness is borne out of knowing that worthwhile ideas, methods, and interactions exist, and knowing I am no longer able to participate with them.(Which ironically is an underestimated and underdiagnosed cause of real, clinical depression.)

When I get too sad, I pick up a book like this one by an author who has an insightful & challenging voice.When I feel an absence of someone challenging me with new & good ideas, I pretend that instead of just reading Ms. Walker's books - I pretend she is in the room with me discussing her radical ideas and intent on keeping me company with her arousing ideals.I imagine she appreciates attentive feedback, and a willingness to thoroughly consider all her ideas, even when she is angry.

And when I pause between ideas, I dream of a world that doesn't exist.I dream that most people would choose to act in ways similar to Ms. Walker.I allow myself to fantasize that most parents might choose to be less hypocritical and would agree to say for the sake of their daughters, "all I can promise her is not to lie" even if it "is painful to her, I believe nonetheless it is better than a lie.Surely better than the lies I was told - 'for my own good' - only to sniff them out eventually and become entangled in them."

Then I get a peaceful, easy feeling and like a mad one, I choose to live as if "love is best expressed through truth," "Because to me, it is precisely our personal memories of joy and delight in each other and our present passions and loves that sustain us." p. 66

And like Ms. Walker, I stubbornly refuse to forget or to pretend those memories never occured.It is a lonely refusal.It may be an unwise refusal.But it is a less unhealthy refusal for me than hypocrisy.It is not a raging refusal (as Ms. Walker indicates it is in her at times).And it is not a depressed refusal.It is a clear, conscious, chosen & sad refusal.And in that existence, I thank Ms. Walker for her ideas, her stubborn voice, her words against likely failures, and in my imaginary world - her companionship.

I love this book.
I want to be Alice Walker when I grow up, too bad that job has already been taken.

Thought Provoking
This is a very interesting book.One of the things that I enjoy most about Walker's writing is her ability to convey her perspective of the world. I esspecially liked the first two essay's, and the essay on her cat.I don't agree with absolutly all of Walker's points (Though I do agree with most of them), but this does nothing to undermine the power of the book. The book is sub-titled "A Writer's Activism" and it left me thinking about the place of activism in my own life.I would certainly recommend this book to anyone with an open mind, especially when read in conjunction with Walker's book of short stories, "You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down". ... Read more

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All over the world, women in developing economies improve the lives of their families by creating and selling exquisite, indigenous crafts. The Ndebele beaders of South Africa, the weavers of Guatemala, the flower painters of Poland, the dollmakers of Turkey, the mirror embroiderers of India, the batik artists of Indonesia contribute to the future of their cultures. In Her Hands: Craftswomen Changing the World is a beautifully photographed documentary of ninety women in twelve countries on four continents, revealing their diverse lives and surprisingly universal aspirations. Often driven by the harsh realities of poverty, little education, and even a lack of basic health care, female artisans are motivated by the desire to provide for their children: to dress them properly, to feed them well, and, most of all, to educate them. The need for social contact and a sense of community brings craftswomen together into small groups, which in turn gives rise to new micro-enterprises in developing countries. Many political and social organizations, including the United Nations, provide guidance and economic support, most often in the form of very small, short-term loans; thus cooperatives are created that strengthen and enrich their cultural heritage as well as individual lives and fortunes. Authors Paola Gianturco and Toby Tuttle have spent five years photographing, interviewing, and writing about craftswomen for this amazing collection. The artisans' individual voices are featured throughout the book as the authors describe their encounters with the craftswomen; amusing, affecting journal entries relate the authors' own experiences and reflections. In Her Hands celebrates a different kind of women¹s movement sisters, grandmothers, and friends join together to create beautiful crafts that contribute to a better life for themselves, their families, and for future generations. ... Read more

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Fantastic , Beautiful,Inspiring, SacredBookNoLess!!!!
This book is absolutely all that the other readers have said. It is precious and very important for all the reasons above. In addition, it has excellent Cooperative and Fair Trade resources. I left my copy in Brazil for others,am now in Mexico, and must have another copy to share with others, and for my home. This book lives in my dreams and adds color, meaning, and celebration to our world. Thank you!!!!
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This book does make a difference!
The glorious color photos and stories have inspired me to meet the craftswomen.I took the book with me on assignment in Guatemala with women weavers and watched the delight and pride from the weavers as they enjoyed the pictures of women like themselves. Each story is a challenge to all of us to seek out these crafts and use them in our daily lives. The well written stories by Paola and the personal essays by Toby are inspirational. They captured the reality of life and the possibilities.I left my copy in Guatemala and just ordered two more as gifts.This is a beautiful book.

A wonderful holiday gift for all my female friends
In Her Hands: Craftswomen Changing the World is a gorgeous photojournalistic volume about women around the world who make indigenous crafts.The crafts, varied and wonderful as they are, are sold at market so that the women can have an income stream to improve their economic situation.Money earned this way is most often used to pay for children's education and improved nutrition.These are often women who live in abject poverty, many without the help of income-generating husbands, who are passionate about giving their children better lives.One admires their focus, their intelligence, and the joy with which they live their lives, as documented by the two author/photographers, Paola Gianturco and Toby Tuttle.This is a wonderful coffee-table sized book with glorious images for anyone who loves crafts, travel, photography and for anyone who thinks and cares about the lives of women around the world. Well-done!I've already bought three!

Truly Great Book!

Amazing photography and unique insight into far lands and distant peoples. "In Her Hands" takes you on a journey to the places you've always wanted to go and into the lives of the people you wish you'd meet when you travel. Women around the world, working to create art and improve their lives. No flashy get-rich-quick success stories, no explosive dot-com egos, but real people who truly earn their success, day by day. The book deals fairly and honestly with complex issues of traditional societies around the world, as women invest their own money in the education of their children and change their local economies.

Beautiful, color-rich images help tell the tale all along. Like photography from LIFE magazine or National Geo, the photos make stories of In Her Hands almost leap from the page.

I highly recommend this to anyone and will be buying many copies as gifts for the holidays! ... Read more

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With a gift for irony, the limerick, and an understanding of children, Lewis Carroll set out to write a book of fantastic entertainment. The story has nothing didactic about it and functions solely as a comedy, making use of fantasy and the burlesque. Although written for children, it is entertaining to adults, too.

CliffsComplete combines the full original text of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with a helpful glossary and CliffsNotes-quality commentary into one volume. You will find:

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Wonderfull!
I found that this great story being told in this form brought some new dimensions to this excellent book that always changes. Reading this version was my first time reading 'Alice' so the extra info was both helpful and exciting!

save your pennies
This was a waste of pennies as there is very little that Cliff Notes can tell you beyond the text or book. It really IS that simple!

Not Worth Buying
I bought this book thinking that I was going to get an extensive commentary about Alice In Wonderland.This book is by no means an in-depth commentary on the piece.There are no more than ten pages of commentary in the whole book.The rest of the book is just the actual text of Alice In Wonderland with large side-margins that occasionally include definitions of words or phrases.

Definitely one of the worst book purchases I have made in the last few years... ... Read more

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"Walker Illustrated Classics" is a new series which brings together some of the best-loved stories ever told, illustrated by some of today's finest artists. These exquisitely designed books, with their magnificent words and glorious pictures, are a pleasure to read - and re-read. The classics have never looked so good!For over a hundred years, "Alice in Wonderland", Lewis Carroll's classic story of logic and lunacy has delighted young and old alike. More abundantly illustrated than previous editions, this award-winning interpretation is full of warmth and humour. The whole approach is contemporary and accessible: Alice herself is a child of today - casually dressed, personable, spirited. In Helen Oxenbury's hands, the topsy-turvy world of Wonderland is a wondrous place indeed! ... Read more

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During the last half of the twentieth century, a group of historically neglected but extremely powerful voices has emerged from the African American literary tradition.The voices of African American women have gathered strength from the suppressed tongues of their foremothers to provide insight into the history, psyche, and spirit of the African American woman.Professor Johnson examines the narrative strategies, with particular emphasis on the authorial and narrative voices, of three texts written by African American women: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, and The Color Purple by Alice Walker. ... Read more

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Non-fiction essays by the author of the Color Purple
This is a collection of non-fiction essays by the author of The Color Purple. Alice Walker speaks as a black woman, mother, and feminist. She writes about black women in relation to their families, mothers, and the world. She also discusses feminism, literature by other writers, the Civil Rights movement,and the anti-nuclear movement. Thoughtful reading! ... Read more

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"Walker Illustrated Classics" is a new series which brings together some of the best-loved stories ever told, illustrated by some of today's finest artists. These exquisitely designed books, with their magnificent words and glorious pictures, are a pleasure to read - and re-read. The classics have never looked so good!For more than a century, Lewis Carroll's classic stories of logic and lunacy have inspired delight in young and old alike. "Alice Through the Looking-Glass" continues Alice's adventures and sees her walking through a mirror into a topsy-turvy world. There she meets a host of bizarre characters, including Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Humpty Dumpty and the Red Queen. But is it all a dream? ... Read more

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"These are the stories that came to me to be told after the close of a magical marriage to an extraordinary man that ended in a less-than-magical divorce. I found myself unmoored, unmated, ungrounded in a way that challenged everything I'd ever thought about human relationships. Situated squarely in that terrifying paradise called freedom, precipitously out on so many emotional limbs, it was as if I had been born; and in fact I was being reborn as the woman I was to become."

So says Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker about her beautiful new book, in which "one of the best American writers today" (The Washington Post) gives us superb stories based on rich truths from her own experience. Imbued with Walker's wise philosophy and understanding of people, the spirit, sex and love, The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart begins with a lyrical, autobiographical story of a marriage set in the violent and volatile Deep South during the early years of the civil rights movement. Walker goes on to imagine stories that grew out of the life following that marriage—a life, she writes, that was "marked by deep sea-changes and transitions." These provocative stories showcase Walker's hard-won knowledge of love of many kinds and of the relationships that shape our lives, as well as her infectious sense of humor and joy. Filled with wonder at the power of the life force and of the capacity of human beings to move through love and loss and healing to love again, The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart is an enriching, passionate book by "a lavishly gifted writer" (The New York Times Book Review).


From the Hardcover edition.Amazon.com Review
Even a fickle reader of Alice Walker will find something to admire in The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart. This tender, elegiac collection of stories is based in part on her early marriage to a white man and her continuing puzzlement at how their connection--once so charmed and resilient--faded to nothing. Looking back at their happy years together in "the racially volatile and violent Deep South state of Mississippi," a place and time in which their union was not only unconventional but illegal, Walker is also led to imagine other, less metaphoric homecomings. After the initial autobiographical story, "To My Young Husband," she turns to a character named Rosa, a novelist like herself, who returns home to the South with her sister, Barbara, after their grandfather's death. Rosa had not made it to the funeral, since news of his death arrived just as she was leaving on a long-planned holiday abroad. Now, belatedly, she has come to gather family stories. But when she asks her Aunt Lily a question, this woman glares back at her with something close to hatred: "I don't want to find myself in anything you write. And you can just leave your daddy alone too." Reeling, Rosa turns to her sister for comfort, but Barbara, too, rejects her with "a look that said she'd got the reply she'd deserved."

For wasn't she always snooping about the family's business and turning things about in her writing in ways that made the family shudder? There was no talking to her as you talked to regular people. The minute you opened your mouth a meter went on. Rose could read all this on her sister's face. She didn't need to speak. And it was a lonely feeling that she had. For Barbara was right. Aunt Lily too. And she could no more stop the meter running than she could stop her breath.

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What Nothingness!
I picked this book up from my local library after having read a book of poetry by Walker. The poetry was very unique and full of rarely experienced perspectives on being an American of Color. I grabbed this book because the title is evocative of spiritual growth. What I found is a book totally devoid of any redeeming spirituality. There were excerpts from Walkers sexual history which I could have done without reading. This book read like an awful diary than was meant to be thrown away but, was found.......by an enemy intending to stab you in the back! What surprises me is, the fact that this garbage was published at all. It is a bunch of senseless ramblings. The title is very misleading. If you like to make comparisons then, this definitely more Anais Nin than Shirley MacLaine!

Reflective and Healing
I happened across Alice's latest while seeking something, anything to read during the weekend immediately after September 11.The introduction simultaneously broke my heart and gave me hope for a better tomorrow.Once I got home, I immediately typed up the majority of the introduction and sent it onto my friends.Many responded thanking me for sending this onto them.

While many of the other reviewers are correct in saying that some of the stories are difficult to understand and others scattered and incosistent, I find this part of the books charm.It is unvarnished, sometimes very thoughtful, other times angry, and still other times conciliatory.In short...it is very real.

If you don't want to think and be challenged, avoid the book.If you want a challenge, pick it up.Nobody says you have to agree with it all, but I for one am thankful that a person such as Alice is willing to bare her soul in such a way that is so provocotive.

I am honestly a bit surprised by the venom of some of the reviews.

Not EXACTLY what I expected...
The conversational tone with which this book is written is delightful. You feel like you're having an intimate chat with Alice over a hot cup of coffee, and that's cozy enough. Problem is, she takes a perfectly good beginning (I can hear LTD's "Where Did We Go Wrong" playin' in the background...)and adds to it perfectly confusing detours. I think the story would have read much better had she added no fiction at all. Most want to hear the truth of it all -- or so it seems to me -- more of the life story of this love union and its subsequent heartbreaking end. Who among us hasn't ever struggled over the disbelief that what was once so right somehow slipped through our fingers like oil? Alice is rich and raw in her expression, and her candor is admirable. But the added fiction to a moving memoir is, particularly when the names and circumstances of the ficticious characters keep tripping over themselves, questionable at best. If you're feeling experimental, go ahead and try it. Otherwise, I'd suggest you stick to more authentic, unclouded memoirs.

Moving Stories...............
..................that analyze the experience of romantic love in all its complex forms. As only Alice Walker can do, with such convincing story lines, common elements of romantic love are demonstrated in stories about transracial, gay/lesbian, rich and poor, educated and less educated couples. Walker shows us how superficial circumstances may differ, while preserving those characteristics of relationships that are common to us all. In doing so she breaks down stereotypes and we come to see her characters as human beings who are just like ourselves.

confusing and vague...
I guess a celebrated author such as Walker can receive accolades from a book that is vague to the point of being- pointless.

With the exception of the first story about her failed marraige, the rest of these stories don't make a whole lot of sense. ... Read more

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To Live Fully, Here and Now formulates a coherent and comprehensive understanding of Alice Walker's spiritual wisdom in the age of heightened global awareness, natural devastation, and spiritual crisis. Simcikova argues that to fully understand Walker's complex and multi-layered concept of spirituality, we have to move beyond the womanist model to incorporate and/or accommodate all the influences that have had a significant impact on Walker. ... Read more

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Examines the life and work of the author of "The Color Purple" and other works which focus on the lives of black women. ... Read more

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very good
This book will be of especial help to young readers. I do, however have one quibble, and that is that the great writer Alice Walker has challenged white male prejudice so effectively that it is regrettable that there isnot more discussion of this in the text. As a white radical feminist whosides with African-American women in their struggle against oppression, Iam grateful that books like this are written. ... Read more