Word: novelled
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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...
...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...
Seated at a table between a vase of lilies and her agent yesterday, Pulitzer-winning author Alice Walker signed books at the Harvard Coop and elaborated on her billing of her fourth novel as "A romance of 500,000 years...
This issue is not a completely novel one forthe University's money managers, though. Forexample, Radcliffe College, which maintains itsown $80 million endowment and owns close to $1million in Mobil stock, wrote a letter to the oilcompany in May, 1988, questioning its policies,according to Morrell...
Alice Walker's new novel about racial and sexual hostilities is more effective as propaganda than as fiction...