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<text id=89TT0088>
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Jan. 09, 1989: The Color Turquoise
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Jan. 09, 1989 Mississippi Burning
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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PEOPLE, Page 72
The Color Turquoise
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<p>By Howard G. Chua-Eoan/Reported by David E. Thigpen
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<p> Not long after publishing her phenomenal best seller, The
Color Purple, author Alice Walker developed a monstrous case of
writer's block. Her solution: to repaint her Mendocino, Calif.,
house. "My psyche was saying `turquoise and coral.'" And in her
turquoise-and-coral bedroom, Walker dreamed up the vision that
led to The Temple of My Familiar, a 480-page novel traversing
500,000 years in Africa, Europe and America. In her first book,
says Walker, "I was rewriting history as I feel it was. Now I'm
going back further in time." The new novel's title refers to
"the natural, untamed spirit roaming the cosmos, its temple."
Harcourt has scheduled the out-of-this-world epic for a 250,000
first printing in May. And Pocketbooks has forked over $2
million for the paperback rights. Walker could have called the
book The Color of Money.
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