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