Possessing the Secret of Joy
8 best books like Possessing the Secret of Joy (Alice Walker): Love, Mama Day, Tar Baby, The Secret Agent, Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography, Linden Hills, Rites of Passage, Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind
| Author | Toni Morrison |
| ISBN | 1400078474 |
Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison’s spellbinding new novel is a Faulknerian symphony of passion and hatred, power and perversity, color and class that spans three generations of black women in a fading beach town.
In life, Bill Cosey enjoyed the affections of many women, who would do almost...
| Author | Gloria Naylor |
| ISBN | 0679721819 |
Bow down, bitches. My favorite novel of the year has emerged. Initially, I didn't even think I would enjoy Mama Day that much; crazy to think that within a span of three days this wonderful novel has completely taken over my life and brought me so much joy and heartache. I'm definitely going to check out...
| Author | Toni Morrison |
| ISBN | 1400033446 |
Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, Tar Baby is Toni Morrison’s reinvention of the love story. Jadine Childs is a black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes...
| Author | Joseph Conrad |
| ISBN | 0192801694 |
Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be "a simple...
| Author | Jean Rhys |
| ISBN | 0140184058 |
There is something sadly fitting about Smile Please ’s being an unfinished autobiography. According to her publisher Diana Athill in the volume's foreword, Rhys was reluctant to revisit in an autobiography painful aspects of her past that she had already treated in her novels. At the same...
| Author | Gloria Naylor |
| ISBN | 0140088296 |
A world away from Brewster Place, yet intimately connected to it, lies Linden Hills. With its showcase homes, elegant lawns, and other trappings of wealth, Linden Hills is not unlike other affluent black communities. But residence in this community is indisputable evidence of "making it." Although...
| Author | William Golding |
| ISBN | 0571209432 |
Well, William Golding, sir. You achieved something that not many men have done. You brought me very close to tears.
This novel really produced an amazingly strong emotional response in me. Odd, in that it keeps the reader at arm's length for much of Edmund Talbot's narrative. Young William is a prig...
Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind
| Author | Mary Field Belenky |
| ISBN | 0465090990 |
Despite the progress of the women's movement, many women still feel silenced in their families and schools. This moving and insightful bestseller, based on in-depth interviews with 135 women, explains why they feel this way. Updated with a new preface exploring how the authors' collaboration and...
