The Temple of My Familiar

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Alice Walker describes her new növel as "a románcé of the last 500,000 years." Spanning continents as well as centuries, it moves from the Americas, Europe, and Africa to nameless primal worlds, where women, men, and animals consort in surprising ways. At the center of the story are two marriages in crisis and a third that has long since shaken down. A guerrilla history professor and a teacher of women's studies turnéd masseuse try to draw closer while remaining free. A rock star and his Latin American refugee wife are partéd by an unlikely "other woman." And a gentle artist and a silverhaired goddess-in the latest cycle of her countless lives-have been companions for so many years they are virtually interchangeable. As (Continued on back flap)
they talk about themselves and reconnect with missing pieces of the past, they uncover disquieting truths about relations between the sexes, the races, and the species during our tenure on the planet. And in the end, they deeply affect one... Tovább

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Alice Walker describes her new növel as "a románcé of the last 500,000 years." Spanning continents as well as centuries, it moves from the Americas, Europe, and Africa to nameless primal worlds, where women, men, and animals consort in surprising ways. At the center of the story are two marriages in crisis and a third that has long since shaken down. A guerrilla history professor and a teacher of women's studies turnéd masseuse try to draw closer while remaining free. A rock star and his Latin American refugee wife are partéd by an unlikely "other woman." And a gentle artist and a silverhaired goddess-in the latest cycle of her countless lives-have been companions for so many years they are virtually interchangeable. As (Continued on back flap)
they talk about themselves and reconnect with missing pieces of the past, they uncover disquieting truths about relations between the sexes, the races, and the species during our tenure on the planet. And in the end, they deeply affect one another. Among the numerous engaging characters who appear in the story are Miss Celie and Miss Shug of The Color Purple, to which this mesmerizing növel is related in vision and spirit. Alice Walker's other novels are The Third Life of Grange Copeland, Meridián, and The Color Purple, which won an American Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. She is alsó the author of two short story collections, In Love & Trouble and You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down\ four volumes of poetry, Once, Revolutionary Petunias, Good Night, JVillie Lee, FII See You in the Morning, and Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful; and two volumes of essays, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens and Living by the Word. She has edited a Zora Neale Hurston reader, and her short story "To Hell with Dying" has been published as an illustrated children's book. Born in Eatonton, Georgia, Alice Walker now lives in northern California. Jacket illustration by Lambert Davis Jacket photograph by Manuel Rodriguez/Image Bank West Jacket typography by Paul Bacon Vissza