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  <title><![CDATA[In Love &amp; Trouble: Stories of Black Women]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;div&gt;Admirers of The Color Purple will find in these stories more evidence&lt;br&gt;of Walker&amp;#8217;s power to depict black women&amp;#8212;women who vary&lt;br&gt;greatly in background yet are bound together by what they share in&lt;br&gt;common.Taken as a whole, their stories form an enlightening,&lt;br&gt;disturbing view of life in the South.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1973</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Alice Walker]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a beautiful collection of short stories. &quot;The Welcome Table,&quot; is a story I return to again and again. I have used it in my classes and find the students respond to it quite well.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<u>In Love and Trouble</u> was a really great collection of short stories by Alice Walker. Walker does a good job expressing the struggles many Black women from the South face. She discusses issues such as gaining the respect her characters desire, fulfilling hard-to-achieve dreams, and obtaining life's ne...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25446960">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[i love alice walker so much and i was looking forward to this book of short stories. however, a lot of the stories were slow and boring. also, a lot of male-bashing. i mean i understand the idea of women being controlled by men, patriarchal societies, etc. however, there weren't any strong, good men...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47380465">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_updated>Mon Apr 06 08:48:08 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this book, it was by the same author, (Alice Walker) of the book The Color Purple which I also read. Instead of being just one story based only on one women it is based on many different stories and its very interesting because you get different perspectives of how these women confronted t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50508001">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Aug 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This collection of stories reminded me of why I liked reading Alice Walker's works.  None of the stories were boring or predictable.  All had lessons to be learned!!]]></body>
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    <review id="78579487">
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book provided a lot of insights into the lives of African American women and the problems and challenges they face, with a lot of humour in it too! Definitely a good read!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved the color purple, it trascends race, which so few authors can do. She got to what it really means to be human!!]]></body>
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    <review id="46165112">
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    <body><![CDATA[A great collection of stories.  Specifically &quot;Rosalee&quot; and &quot;My Sweet Jerome&quot;.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Highly, highly recommended for everyone]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Outstanding.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book, the first one I've read by Alice Walker.  She's an excellent stylist, and the stories are quite powerful.  My favorite two were &quot;The Welcome Table&quot; (depressing) and &quot;To Hell with Dying&quot; (uplifting), though every story engaged me, and it was interesting...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30395812">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="13368360">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a book of short stories.  There are really interesting ideas presented in this collection.  The writing is very graceful, but I'll admit there were times when my attention wandered.  But some of the stories were mesmerizing, and often the endings were unexpected.]]></body>
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    <review id="2004910">
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    <body><![CDATA[I really loved these short stories, written from the perspective of women of color of different ages and social status.  My favorite story was of an older woman obsessed about her bookworm husband's fidelity.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this collection is super stylish. Lately, I've grown quite fond of &quot;Roselily.&quot;  Also, Julie Dash put &quot;A Diary of an African Nun&quot; on film, but I've only been able to find a short clip :o(.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite short story collections. Alice Walker at her best. The stories, especially Roselily and The Child who Favored Daughter are very poetic in their style.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I would seriously recommend this collection.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The story &quot;Everyday Use&quot; is incredible.]]></body>
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