eBook, 302 pages
English language
Published Sept. 20, 2011 by Open Road Media.
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4532-2397-0
- OCLC Number:
- 1285925104
- ASIN:
- B005NY4QGM
- Goodreads:
- 12706880
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In Meridian, Alice Walker wrote the classic novel of the civil rights movement. Her new novel goes back to the period between the World Wars. It tells the story of two sisters: one a missionary in Africa and the other a child-wife living in the South, who sustain their loyalty and trust in each other across time, distance, and silence, in one of the most unusual and moving exchanges in fiction.
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 …
In Meridian, Alice Walker wrote the classic novel of the civil rights movement. Her new novel goes back to the period between the World Wars. It tells the story of two sisters: one a missionary in Africa and the other a child-wife living in the South, who sustain their loyalty and trust in each other across time, distance, and silence, in one of the most unusual and moving exchanges in fiction.
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
- African American women
- Sisters
- Adult child sexual abuse victims
- Abused wives
- Domestic fiction
- National Book Award Winner
- American fiction
- African American authors
- Social conditions
- Southern states, fiction
- Sisters, fiction
- African americans, fiction
- Fiction, family life
- Fiction, general
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- Historical fiction
- LGBTQ novels