A Few Little Books Online ShoppingEverything You Always Wanted To Read

Le Grand Jete’ Dances Into Pre-Production

A Sorta Fairytale Productions is in pre-production on another movie entitled ‘Le Grande Jete’, which is set to be the new musical film of the year.

The film is a combination of Baz Lurman’s ‘Moulin Rouge’, a touch of ‘Enchanted’ and the music and dance styles of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rodgers, ‘Le Grande Jete’ is sure to be a hit.

The story is set around the character Audrey, a talented ballet dancer whose career is cut short after an injury whilst performing the most important show of her life. With no other options, Audrey comes to terms with the fact that she will have to go back to her home town and stay with her parents.

The magic begins when she sets about opening her own dance school and raising money to make her dreams come true. But, the evil Quieval Downs is intent on tearing down the building to build new modern apartment homes and cafes.

Through a variety of music, song and dance, Audrey and her team, fight for their right to keep the building. Creating the sort of warm hearted film that all the family can enjoy.

Alice L. Walker is both the creator and the lead actress in ‘Le Grande Jete’. A former Ballet dancer herself, Alice aims to lend all of her own personal experiences to the character of Audrey.

Kerry Finlayson from Sweet Home Films LLC, will Produce and Richard Peters will Direct.

‘Le Grande Jete’ starts filming in Los Angeles in the Spring.

About the author

The Color Purple $4.79 Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and attempting to protect her sister from the same fate, and continuing over the course of her marriage to “Mister,” a brutal man who terrorizes her. Celie eventually learns that her abusive husband has been keeping her sister’s letters from her and…

Cane $5.89 “[Cane] has been reverberating in me to an astonishing degree. I love it passionately; could not possibly exist without it.” —Alice WalkerA literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance, Cane is a powerful work of innovative fiction evoking black life in the South. The sketches, poems, and stories of black rural and urban life that make up Cane are rich in imagery. Visions of smoke, sugarcane,…

Nadine Gordimer and Alice Walker – Two Stories Compared $3.50 A detailed academic essay which compares and contrasts Nadine Gordimer’s short story ‘Country Lovers’ with Alice Walker’s ‘The Welcome Table’ in terms of narrative style and technique, and with an emphasis on each writer’s presentation of racism….

Alice Walker $73 Alice Walker, born in Eatonton, Georgia in 1944, overcame a disadvantaged sharecropping background, blindness in one eye, and the tense times of the Civil Rights Movement to become one of the world’s most respected African American writers. While attending both Spelman and Sarah Lawrence Colleges, Walker began to draw on both her personal tragedies and those of her community to write poetry, essays, short stories, and novels that would tell the virtually untold stories of oppressed African and African American women, providing readers with hope and inspiring activisim. Perhaps best known for her novel The Color Purple (1982), which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1983 and became a controversial film three years later, Walker has introduced and developed womanist theory, criticism and practice, and continues to champion the causes of women of color by encouraging their strength and liberation in her life and her writings. Literary works analyzed in this volume: The Third Life of Grange Copeland, Meridian, The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar, Possessing the Secret of Joy, By the Light of My Father’s Smile, The Way Forward Is With a Broken Heart, Now is the Time to Open Your Heart.

Alice Walker, New edition $54 Alice Walker, New Edition

The Stories of Alice Adams $14.99 “Alice Adams has an inimitable ‘voice’–quick, deft, brilliantly evocative and specific. There is always something special about a story of hers, like a watercolor perfectly executed.”  –Joyce Carol Oates     Award-winning writer Alice Adams, whose major themes were the varied lives of contemporary women and the hidden workings of human relationships is equally treasured for her short stories and her novels.   The stories collected here represent the full range of her career, which included 25 appearances in The New Yorker , 6 O.Henry First Prizes out of a total of 23 appearances, as well as inclusion in numerous Best American Short Stories anthologies. In story after story insight joins with grace to show us the truth about the lives of people around us.   Included: “Verlie I Say Unto You,”  “Beautiful Girl,” “The Swastika on the Door,”  “Greyhound People,”  “The Girl Across the Room,”  Truth or Consequences,”  “Separate Planes,”  “Your Doctor Loves You,”  “Old Love Affairs,” “Earthquake Damage,” and 43 other classic stories.  

Writers and Their Works; Alice Walker $42.79 An in-depth analysis of Alice Walker, her writings, and the historical time period in which they were written.

Critical companion to Alice Walker $75 Alice Walker is one of the few living writers whose work regularly appears in the high school curriculum. While she is known primarily for her best-selling novel and masterpiece The Color Purple, many of her other novels, essays, and poems are favorites of both students and teachers alike. In 1983 she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Critical Companion to Alice Walker is a one-stop resource for anyone interested in this prolific author's life, works, and achievements.