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Wounds of Passion - by Bell Hooks (Paperback)

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  • "bell hooks's brave memoir of struggling to find her own work, love, and independence.
  • About the Author: bell hooks (Gloria Jean Watkins, 1952-2021) was a pioneering feminist whose writings revealed how the specific life experiences of Black women were marginalized by the idea that feminism represented all women equally.
  • 288 Pages
  • Biography + Autobiography, Literary Figures
  • Series Name: Wounds of Passion

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About the Book



With her customary boldness and insight, bell hooks describes a woman's struggle to devote herself to writing, sharing the difficulties, the triumphs, the pleasures, and the dangers.



Book Synopsis



"bell hooks's brave memoir of struggling to find her own work, love, and independence." --Gloria Steinem
With her customary boldness and insight, brilliant social critic and public intellectual bell hooks traces her writer's journey in Wounds of Passion. She shares the difficulties and triumphs, the pleasures and the dangers, of a life devoted to writing. hooks lets readers see the ways one woman writer can find her own voice while forging relationships of love in keeping with her feminist thinking. With unflinching courage and hard-won wisdom, hooks reveals the intimate details and provocative ideas of the life path she carved out of words, lighting the way for all writers who would tread in her wake.
This memoir is an illuminating vision of a writer's life from one of America's treasured authors.
"I love this book. Each offering from bell hooks is a major event, as she has so much to give us." --Maya Angelou



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"I love this book. Each offering from Bell Hooks is a major event, as she has so much to give us." --Maya Angelou"

"Wounds of Passion . . . is a carefully rered portrait of difficult love." --Time Out New York




About the Author



bell hooks (Gloria Jean Watkins, 1952-2021) was a pioneering feminist whose writings revealed how the specific life experiences of Black women were marginalized by the idea that feminism represented all women equally. A professor of English, African and Afro-American studies, American literature, and women's studies, she taught at the University of Southern California, Yale, Oberlin College, City College of New York, and Kentucky's Berea College, which established the bell hooks Institute for her work.

The author of more than thirty books of literary criticism, children's fiction, poetry, and autobiography, including Killing Rage: Ending Racism, Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood, Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life, and Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work, hooks was nominated for the NAACP Image Award, won an American Book Award, and was named one of Time's 100 Women of the Year in 2020.

Dimensions (Overall): 8.52 Inches (H) x 5.57 Inches (W) x .72 Inches (D)
Weight: .83 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 288
Series Title: Wounds of Passion
Genre: Biography + Autobiography
Sub-Genre: Literary Figures
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Format: Paperback
Author: Bell Hooks
Language: English
Street Date: January 15, 1999
TCIN: 83932470
UPC: 9780805057225
Item Number (DPCI): 247-00-9705
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship weight: 0.83 pounds
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