The Chicken Chronicles: Sitting with the Angels Who Have Returned with My Memories: Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, Splendor, Hortensia, Agne

by Alice Walker

Book Overview

A "life-affirmative and eccentrically inspirational" collection from the National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple (Kirkus Reviews).

In these glorious, offbeat, and compassionate tales, one of America's preeminent authors shares her experiences raising and caring for a flock of affectionately named chickens. Walker addresses her "girls" directly, sometimes from the intimate proximity of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1595586458
• ISBN13: 9781595586452
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

A completely entertaining book, even has information about chickens.

Alice Walker has achieved fame for her accomplished writings, and I feel this book is among her best. As someone who has raised chickens, ducks. geese and other domestic animals, I feel Ms Walker went through many of the experiences I did, but her articulation and perception made the whole animal husbandry situation more honest and heartfelt. She weaves together her recollections and forgotten memories to make a story that is much more than just a chicken raising story, but it is also that.