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The Color Purple

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An edition of The Color Purple (1976)

The Color Purple

1st Washington Square Press printing (1)

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  • ★★★★ 4.19 ·
  • 73 Ratings
  • 1253 Want to read
  • 76 Currently reading
  • 140 Have read

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.
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Copyright Date
1982

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Format
Paperback
Pagination
253 p. ;
Number of pages
253

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OL13571980M
Internet Archive
colorpurple00walkrich
ISBN 10
0671458531
ISBN 13
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9552175
Amazon ID (ASIN)
0671458531
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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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