num_pages: 253
description: 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
language: English
title: The Color Purple
titlecomplete: The Color Purple
characters: Nettie, Miss Millie, Shug Avery, Albert, Celie
genres: Historical Fiction, Historical, LGBT, Novels, Queer, Literature, Classics, Feminism, African American, Fiction
ratings_count: 653240
places: Georgia
series: The Color Purple Collection
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 410256000000
name: National Book Award
category: Fiction (Hardcover), awardedAt: 378720000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Townsend Prize for Fiction
publisher: Pocket Books