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A dialogue between Isabel Allende, Jean Shinoda Bolen and Alice Walker - Original Nonfiction Audio Program - 1 CASSETTE

Publisher, Sounds True Audio (October 1993)

"In an outstanding segment of the Creative Conversations series, three world-renowned women authors discuss their lives, books, and the diverse forces that have spawned their many literary productions. Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize winner for the novel The Color Purple ; Isabel Allende, South American journalist and fiction writer; and Jean Shinoda Bolen, psychiatrist and professor, mesh their remarks beautifully in a moving, fluid, and colorful dialog (these women are funny ). They tell how pain, abandonment, grief, violence, anger, and also joy and love have been catalytic to their creative writings. They also describe other influential factors such as the collective female unconscious, clairvoyance, witnessing, time alone, and being born different. Their priceless words promote the bonding of every woman and provide for a deeper understanding of the creative process. For general audiences and women's studies, creative studies, and literature collections." --Library Journal, Barbara J. Vaughan, State Univ. Coll. at Buffalo Lib., N.Y.

Three eminent writers and strong women join in this once-in-a-lifetime dialogue about giving birth to life, to love, and to art. Share in this meeting as Alice Walker, Isabel Allende, and Jean Shinoda Bolen unravel their lives from their books and illustrate how creativity can kindle the feminine spirit. Using words and stories like brushstrokes, they draw us into the sagas of their lives. We learn how pain, anger, and sorrow give birth to the treasure that is their writing. Giving Birth, Finding Form offers many stories from the lives of these award-winning writers.