ALICE WALKER- The Third Life of Grace Copeland (1970) 5th Printing / Softcover [Author's First Novel]

The Third Life of Grange Copeland

Alice Walker

Early edition. Cover design by Basgrove. Octavo (20.5cm) Softcover. Light wear only. Pencil notations on the reverse of the last flyleaf only, else  Near Fine copy. Text is CLEAN.  [AUTHOR"S FIRST NOVEL]

The Third Life of Grange Copeland is the debut novel of American author Alice Walker. Published in 1970, it is set in rural Georgia. It tells the story of Grange, his wife, their son Brownfield, and granddaughter Ruth. As a poor sharecropper, Grange is virtually a slave; in cotton-era Georgia the more he works, the more money he ends up owing to the man who owns the fields he works and the house he lives in. Eventually life becomes too much for him and he runs away from his debts to start a new life up North, leaving his family.