The Same River Twice - by Alice Walker (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In the early eightiesm three extraordinary events interrupted Alice Walker's peaceful, reclusive life--the publication of the bestselling novel The Color Purple, the Pulitzer Prize, and an offer from Spielberg to make her novel into a film. This book chronicles that period of transition from recluse to public figure, and invites us to contemplate, along with her, the true significance of unanticipated gifts.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Alice Walker explores the struggles she's had with art, motherhood, illness, and relationships, as well as reveals details from the controversy in the making of the movie based on her book, <i>The Color Purple</i>.</b> <p/><i>The Same River Twice</i> is a collection of work based on Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize----winning novel, <i>The Color Purple</i>. The collection includes essays, journal entries, and the screenplay she never got to use. It covers topics such as art, motherhood, illness, and relationships. She also reveals her work with Steven Spielberg, Quincy Jones, Oprah Winfrey, and Whoopi Goldberg on the movie based on her book, and explores the controversy behind the movie surrounding Steven and Alice's differing visions, and how it was received by critics. Behind the beautiful writing lies a vulnerability in self-doubt and worry in how the community will respond to her writing. <i>The Same River Twice</i> explores the complex experiences in her life and illuminates Walker as a woman, an artist, and healer.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Alice Walker is a distinguished author and activist who has written dozens of books, including novels, poems, essays, short stories, and children's books. She was the first African American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her novel <i>The Color Purple</i>, which also won the National Book Award in 1983. Walker's other books include <i>The Third Life of Grange Copeland</i>, <i>The Temple of My Familiar</i>, and <i>Possessing the Secret of Joy</i>. More than fifteen million copies of her books have been sold, and her work has been translated into more than two dozen languages. As an activist, Walker focuses on issues of inequality, poverty, and social injustice.
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