The Color Purple
By: Alice Walker
Edition: Phoenix paperback edition (38)
Publisher: Phoenix; Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Published: 2011?
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780753818923
Copyright date: 1992
Subjects: Abused wives; Adult child sexual abuse victims; Sisters; African American women; Fiction
Description: Set in the deep American South between the wars, this is the tale of Celie, a young black girl born into poverty and segregation. Raped repeatedly by the man she calls 'father', she has two children taken away from her, is separated from her beloved sister Nettie, and is trapped into an ugly marriage. But then she meets the glamorous Shug Avery, singer and magic-maker - a woman who has taken charge of her own destiny. Gradually Celie discovers the power and joy of her own spirit, freeing her from her past and reuniting her with those she loves.
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Notes: Pulitzer prize for fiction winner, 1983.