The Color Purple
By: Alice Walker.
Edition: 10th anniversary ed., First edition (F)
Publisher: Harcourt
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780151191543
Copyright date: 1992
Subjects: African American women -- Fiction; Adult child sexual abuse victims -- Fiction; Abused wives -- Fiction; Sisters -- Fiction; Southern States -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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.
Notes: US/CAN