The Third Life of Grange Copeland

First book by the author of The Color Purple, unpublished in Brazil.

The Third Life of Grange Copeland , the first book by Alice Walker—winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for *The Color Purple *—reveals the daily life of a Black family in the American South, spanning three generations. Oppressed by the racist structure of Baker County, farmhand Grange Copeland abandons his family and lover to make a living in the North, but returns after undergoing transformative experiences, determined never to associate with white people again. Grange rebuilds his life, becomes a farmer, but must deal with the consequences of his past choices. Written with powerful and precise language, the book addresses violence —racial, social, familial, and against women—but also the human strength capable of changing an inhospitable reality through love and action in the world.

For writer Jarid Arraes , who wrote the book's blurb, "Alice Walker is courageous. She addresses deeply sensitive and taboo topics within the Black community itself. She writes with the hunger of someone who needs to tell more than reality: she needs the rawness, the most inflamed and difficult-to-treat wound. This work is, first and foremost, literature for those who are not afraid of the honesty of the mirror, the painful questions, and the grotesque."

"Almost no one has tried to tell us about the early, intimate lives of black people [...]. Alice Walker is a storyteller." - The New Yorker

"Alice Walker moves us by emphasizing the humanity we share with her characters [...]. A dense, honest, and sensitive narrative [...] tempered by moments of humor and affection that helped men and women endure so much tragedy [...]. Walker seems confident in letting narrative, characterization, and events, the soul of a novel, speak for themselves." - Chicago Daily News