by Alice Walker (Author)
Kate has always been a wanderer. A well-published author, married several times, she has lived a life full of exploration. Now, as she begins to feel the first ravages of age, she wants to find a new sense of meaning. She leaves her lover Yolo on a journey down the Colorado river - a journey that will force her to re-explore her past and her future, and her connection to the real world. On her travels she meets shamans and the mysterious spiritual world of the native Indian. Yolo too begins his own journey as he travels to Hawaii and meets a former lover whose life is being destroyed by the excesses of American society. As Kate and Yolo gain shifting insights into their own lives and the world around them, will their paths diverge or lead back to each other? Written with Alice Walker's flawless and passionate prose, this is a beautiful meditation on love and the places love can take us. This is a novel very much in tune with the zeitgeist - Alice Walker argues that we need to look inwards and develop a more open attitude in order to combat the pervasive climate of fear and distrust.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Edition: Open Market Ed
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 07 Apr 2005
ISBN 10: 0753819279
ISBN 13: 9780753819272
Book Overview: First paperback publication of Alice Walker's new novel - hardback reprinted even before publication We now publish Alice Walker's entire backlist. THE COLOR PURPLE has sold over a million copies in total, and is on a wide variety of university reading lists. Our Phoenix edition sold 20,000 copies within its first two months of publication 'In a story of explorative journey, natural landscape and love, she has given herself the right tools to get her message across...the sense remains that indeed the world is steeped in trouble, and a reassessment and realignment of the self might be the way forward. Walker's writing is languid and effortlessly graceful, and has not lost its power to prod at the sorest, most critical anxieties of the human condition...hers is an eternal message that never loses its relevance' Independent 'Walker's passionate prose lends the novel weight and manages to be both profound and hypnotic' Glamour 'A heart-warming tale of identity and a life at the crossroads...Perfect for those who love a good story, brilliantly told' Red 'This beautifully written tale tells the story of a woman feeling the ravages of age who takes off on a magical adventure' New Woman.
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