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- PEOPLE, Page 72The Color Turquoise
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- By Howard G. Chua-Eoan/Reported by David E. Thigpen
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- 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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