
To Hell with Dying
By Alice Walker
1967
First Published
4.07
Average Rating
32
Number of Pages
“The tender colors seem lit from within, creating a reverential mood that enhances the story’s compelling narrative. A loving remembrance of a common man whose humanity Walker makes memorable.”— Booklist “Overflowing with compassion, humor, and good sense, [it is] a fine story of deep feeling.”— Kirkus Reviews
Avg Rating
4.07
Number of Ratings
199
5 STARS
38%
4 STARS
37%
3 STARS
20%
2 STARS
4%
1 STARS
1%
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Author

Alice Walker
Author · 49 books
Alice Walker, one of the United States’ preeminent writers, is an award-winning author of novels, stories, essays, and poetry. In 1983, Walker became the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction with her novel The Color Purple, which also won the National Book Award. Her other books include The Third Life of Grange Copeland, Meridian, The Temple of My Familiar, and Possessing the Secret of Joy. In her public life, Walker has worked to address problems of injustice, inequality, and poverty as an activist, teacher, and public intellectual.