Word: bookings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fair to the individual work, but any novel by Alice Walker invites comparison to The Color Purple, the book that brought her into the limelight. And her newest book, The Temple of My Familiar just cannot measure...
Walker broke ground with The Color Purple by writing in the voice of a poor Black woman. She showed a stunning power over words by using simple language to develop complex characters and show strong emotion. In Temple, Walker has done just the opposite. The book is a string of cliches and reads like a pop novel--there is too much discussion of running shoes, crystals and jacuzzis and not enough about people...
...recent years, the library has been at the center of the University's attempts to conserve and restore its rare book collection. Wendorf said that this is not a new problem, and he does not anticipate any serious challenges in this area...
According to Coop Book Director Daniel J. Delellis, the store expected to sell about 300 copies yesterday. When Walker finished, about that many people, most of them women, had waited in line for her signature holding the book in their hands...
Walker, who lives in northern California, flew to Boston to speak at the Boston Globe's book and author luncheon later this week...