An edition of The Color Purple (1976)

The Color Purple

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An edition of The Color Purple (1976)

The Color Purple

1st Pocket Books mass-market printing (11); movie tie-in

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  • ★★★★ 4.2 (74 ratings) ·
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  • 78 Currently reading
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The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction.

The novel has been the frequent target of censors and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000–2009 at number seventeenth because of the sometimes explicit content, particularly in terms of violence. In 2003, the book was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novels."


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Fiction & Literature, Blacks, social life and customs, songs and music, Lesbian fiction, Epistolary fiction, Fiction, African American women, Sisters, Adult child sexual abuse victims, Abused wives, Domestic fiction, National Book Award Winner, award:national_book_award=1983, award:national_book_award=fiction, American fiction, African American authors, Social conditions, open_syllabus_project, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Language readers, Books that Shaped Work in America, Fictional Works Publication Type, African Continental Ancestry Group, Romans, Noires américaines, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, 1000blackgirlbooks, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Southern states, fiction, Sisters, fiction, African americans, fiction, Fiction, family life, Fiction, general, Fiction, african american, general, Large type books, Noires, Romans, nouvelles, Historical fiction, LGBTQ novels, Fiction, african american & black, general, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, family life, general, Vrouwenemancipatie, Racisme, Romans en novellen ; vertaald, American literature, Translations into Spanish, Spanish fiction, Spanish imprints, Roman espagnol, Imprimés espagnols, Lesbians, Friendship

People

Celie, Nettie, Shug Avery, Albert, God, Samuel, Corrine, Alphonso, Adam, Olivia, Harpo, Sofia, Squeak, Sheriff Hodges, Grady, Germaine, Tashi

Places

Southern States, United States, Georgia, Africa, Tennessee

Times

1930s

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The Color Purple
2017, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
paperback in English
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The Color Purple
2004, Paperview
in English
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The Color Purple
2004, Phoenix
paperback in English - paperback edition
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La Couleur Pourpre
2001-04-25, J'ai Lu
Mass Market Paperback in French
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The color purple
1986, Guild Publishing
hardcover in English - Fourth reprint
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The Color Purple
1985-12, Pocket Books
Mass Market Paperback in English - 1st Pocket Books mass-market printing (11); movie tie-in
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The Color Purple
1983-06, Washington Square Press
Paperback in English - First Washington Square Press printing (33)
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The Color Purple
1983 06, Washington Square Press
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The Color Purple
1982, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers
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The Color Purple
1982, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers
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Life wasn't easy for Celie. But she knew how to survive, needing little to get by.
Then her husband's lover, a flamboyant blues singer, barreled into her world and gave Celie the courage to ask for more - to laugh, to play, and finally - to love.
--back cover

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Copyright Date
1985

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Mass Market Paperback
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295p.
Number of pages
295

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OL28040165M
ISBN 10
0671617028
ISBN 13
9780671617028
LCCN
81048242
OCLC/WorldCat
12958240, 898801388
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1100590

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