num_pages: 128
description: A Woman Alone is a collection of autobiographical writings, sketches, and essays that covers the entire span of Bessie Head's creative life, up to her death in 1986 at the age of 49. It reveals a woman of great sensitivity and vitality, inspired through her knowledge of suffering with "a reverence for ordinary people'' and finding some healing for her own anguish in a quiet corner of Africa.
language: English
title: A Woman Alone: Autobiographical Writings
titlecomplete: A Woman Alone: Autobiographical Writings (African Writers Series)
genres: Autobiography, African Literature, South Africa, Africa, Memoir, Essays, Nonfiction, Botswana
ratings_count: 85
publisher: Heinemann