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Title: The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart by Alice Walker ISBN: 0-345-40795-4 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 02 October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.59 (22 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: What Nothingness!
Comment: 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!
Rating: 5
Summary: Reflective and Healing
Comment: 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.
Rating: 3
Summary: Not EXACTLY what I expected...
Comment: 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.
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Title: By the Light of My Father's Smile : A Novel by Alice Walker ISBN: 0345426061 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 31 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down by Alice Walker ISBN: 0156997789 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: April, 1982 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Anything We Love Can Be Saved by Alice Walker ISBN: 0345407962 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 07 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Sent by Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit After the Bombing of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon by Alice Walker ISBN: 1583224912 Publisher: Seven Stories Press Pub. Date: 27 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.00 |
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Title: Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth : New Poems by Alice Walker ISBN: 0375509046 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 04 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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