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 Harvest ed. (L)

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  • ★★★★ 4.2 (87 ratings)
  • 1,619 Want to read
  • 94 Currently reading
  • 168 Have read

Published to unprecedented acclaim, The Color Purple established Alice Walker as a major voice in modern fiction. This is the story of two sisters--one a missionary in Africa and the other a child wife living in the South--who sustain their loyalty to and trust in each other across time, distance, and silence. Beautifully imagined and deeply compassionate, this classic novel of American literature is rich with passion, pain, inspiration, and an indomitable love of life.
--back cover

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Harcourt
Language
English
Pages
288

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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 Fictional Works [Publication Type]

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

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Southern States United States Georgia Africa Tennessee

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1930s

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The Color Purple
2023, Penguin
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The Color Purple
2021, Folio Society
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The Color Purple
2019, Turtleback
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The Color Purple
2007, Harcourt, Inc.
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The Color Purple
2004?, Harcourt
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The Color Purple
1986, Guild Publishing
in English
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The color purple
1985, Pocket Books
in English
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The color purple
1985, Pocket Books
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The Color Purple
1985, FollettBound
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The color purple
1983, Washington Square Press
in English
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The color purple
1983, Washington Square Press
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A Harvest Book

Published in
Orlando
Genre
Fiction.
Copyright Date
1982

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3573.A425 C6 2003, PS3573.A425C6 2003, PS3573.A425 C65 2003

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
288 p.
Number of pages
288

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL3673322M
ISBN 10
0156028352
ISBN 13
9780156028356
LCCN
2003005887
OCLC/WorldCat
1242289988
Amazon ID (ASIN)
0156028352
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LibraryThing
283
Goodreads
45314458

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Work ID
OL273644W

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Work Description

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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I am fourteen years old.
added anonymously.
You better not never tell nobody but God.
added by Lisa.

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