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You can't keep a good woman down : stories

Author: Alice Walker
Publisher: New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1981] ©1981
Series: A Harvest/HBJ book
Edition/Format:  Print book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Fourteen short stories by the Pulitzer Prize winning author about strong women--their struggles and joys.
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Genre/Form: Short stories
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Walker, Alice, 1944-
You can't keep a good woman down.
New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, ©1981
(OCoLC)755035811
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Alice Walker
ISBN: 0151997543 9780151997541 0156997789 9780156997782 015602862X 9780156028622
OCLC Number: 7177726
Description: x, 167 pages ; 22 cm.
Contents: Nineteen Fifty-five --
How did I get away with killing one of the biggest lawyers in the state? It was easy. --
Elethia --
The lover --
Petunias --
Coming apart --
Fame --
The abortion --
Porn --
Advancing Luna-and Ida B. Wells --
Laurel --
A letter of the times, or should this sado-masochism be saved --
A sudden trip home in the spring --
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Series Title: A Harvest/HBJ book
Responsibility: by Alice Walker.

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Fourteen short stories by the Pulitzer Prize winning author about strong women--their struggles and joys.

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