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An edition of The Color Purple
(1982)
The Color Purple
10th anniversary ed., First edition (F)
by Alice Walker and Alice Walker
- 3 Ratings
- 132 Want to read
- 6 Currently reading
- 11 Have read
Previews available in: Dutch English
The principal voice is that of Celie, who has been raped by the man she believes to be her father, robbed of her two children, and married off to a man she hates. Her sister, Nettie,e escapes the same fate and is befriended by missionaries, man and wife, who have unwittingly adopted Celie's children. Separated for thirty years, the sisters live in ignorance of each other's circumstances. Nettie's letters do not reach Celie; and so great is Celie's sense of shame that she can write only to God. But life for Celie begins to change color when her husband's lover, a remarkable woman named Shug Avery, comes to live with them.
Honest, poignant, laughing, defiant, The Color Purple is a story about heroic lives, love, and the nature of God, and it breaks new ground in fiction with its portrayal of the bonding of women.
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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 literaturePeople
Celie, Nettie, Shug Avery, Albert, God, Samuel, Corrine, Alphonso, Adam, Olivia, Harpo, Sofia, Squeak, Sheriff Hodges, Grady, Germaine, TashiPlaces
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The Color Purple
1992, Harcourt
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De kleur paars
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The Color Purple
1985 12, Pocket Books
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1983-06, Washington Square Press
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The Color Purple: A Novel
1982, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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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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