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[My new book] starts in 1960 with a woman named Lois Rabinowitz, who was evicted from Manhattan traffic court for attempting to pay a parking ticket while wearing slacks. This was... Continue »
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    When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present

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You Cant Keep a Good Woman Down

by Alice Walker

ISBN13: 9780156997782
ISBN10: 0156997789
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A natural evolution from the earlier, much-acclaimed collection In Love & Trouble, these fourteen provocative and often humorous stories show women oppressed but not defeated. “[Walker] shrinks from no moral or emotional complexity, and she writes consummately skillful short stories” (Alice Adams, San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle).

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Table of Contents

Nineteen fifty-five — How did I get away with killing one of the biggest lawyers in the state? : it was easy — Elethia — The lover — Petunias — Coming apart — Fame — The abortion — Porn — Advancing Luna — and Ida B. Wells — Laurel — A letter of the times, or should this sado-masochism be saved? — A sudden trip home in the Spring — Source.
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ISBN:
9780156997782
Author:
Walker, Alice
Publisher:
Harvest Books
Location:
San Diego
Subject:
General
Subject:
Short Stories (single author)
Subject:
Afro-american authors
Subject:
Short stories, American
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
Stories (single author)
Copyright:
c198
Edition Number:
1st Harvest/HBJ ed.
Series Volume:
no. 4
Publication Date:
19820305
Binding:
TP
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
180
Dimensions:
7.96x5.29x.41 in. .38 lbs.
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