The Way Forward is with a Broken Heart

by Alice Walker (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $3.40

  Unusual and revealing, this collection opens with a passionate account of Alice Walker's early marriage to a Jewish lawyer and their life in racist Mississippi, giving voice to idealism, lost love and hope. Ten further stories expand on this theme: tales of sisters, family, love for men and for women. They consider issues of racism, slavery, politics, sex. Alice Walker's voice, her lyricism, her magical use of detail to illuminate and add sensuality, have never seemed stronger. Rich, funny, impassioned and honest, here is a book which charts a life in progress, an identity explored. Alice Walker has always written books that have broken moulds. Her new one once again redraws the landscape.

• New

  Paperback
  2005

  $10.83

  From the author of THE COLOR PURPLE, fiction and autobiography blend in this fabulously rich collection of short stories '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' The Way Forward is with a Broken Heart starts with a lyrical, autobiographical story of the breakdown of a marriage during the early years of the civil rights movement. Alice Walker then goes on to imagine stories that grew out of the life following that marriage. Filled with wonder at the capacity of humans to move through love and loss, this is an uplifting read that showcases the authors warmth, wit and wisdom.