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Walker, Alice

 
9780375501524: By the Light of My Father's Smile
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ISBN 10: 0375501525 ISBN 13: 9780375501524
Editorial: Random House USA Inc, 1998

Sinopsis

The story of an American family--would-be writer Susannah, her sister Magdalena, and her parents--who take up life with an endangered mixed race of black Indians in the Mexican Sierras, explores how a woman's denied sexuality leads to a loss of self and the sexual healing of the soul. 200,000 first printing. Tour.

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Alice Walker won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for her novel <b>The Color Purple</b>.  Her other bestselling novels include <b>Possessing the Secret of Joy</b> and <b>The Temple of My Familiar</b>.  She is also the author of two collections of short stories, three collections of essays, five volumes of poetry, and several children's books.  Her books have been translated into more than two dozen languages.  Born in Eatonton, Georgia, Walker now lives in Northern California.

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Light of My Father's Smile</b> is Alice Walker's first novel in six years--a stunning, original, and important book by "one of the best American writers of today" (The Washington Post).<br><br>A family from the United States goes to the remote Sierras in Mexico--the writer-to-be, Susannah; her sister, Magdalena; her father and mother. And there, amid an endangered band of mixed-race Blacks and Indians called the Mundo, they begin an encounter that will change them more than they could ever dream. Moving back and forth in time, and among unforgettable characters and their stories, Walker crosses conventional borders of all kinds as she explores in this magical novel the ways in which a woman's denied sexuality leads to the loss of the much prized and necessary original self; and how she regains that self, even as her family's past of lies and love is transformed.<br><br> <b>By the Light of My Father's Smile</b> presents, as Alice Walker puts it, &qu

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Editorial
Random House USA Inc
Año de publicación
1998
Idioma
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ISBN 10 
0375501525
ISBN 13 
9780375501524
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
222
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Otras ediciones populares con el mismo título

9780345426062: By the Light of My Father's Smile: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

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ISBN 10:  0345426061 ISBN 13:  9780345426062
Editorial: Ballantine Books, 1999
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