![]() Now, at 57, she has recalled that early, electric time in her new book, The Way Forward Is With a Broken Heart, a work that, in the way it deals with relations between the races, could hardly be more timely for a nation whose new President attracted only 8 per cent of the black vote and who owes his position, many feel, to the disenfranchisement of the black voter in Florida. Walker and Leventhal parted in some pain in 1976, she eventually to fame and esteem with The Colour Purple and a successful writing career in California, he to a big law practice on the east coast and a new marriage and family. That was it, too, for young Leventhal, and this was to herald the love affair which led to a wedding in 1967 and a 'movement' child, herself now with her own self-reflective new book just published. ![]()
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