The Color PurpleCelie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and attempting to protect her sister from the same fate, and continuing over the course of her marriage to "Mister," a brutal man who terrorizes her. Celie eventually learns that her abusive husband has been keeping her sister's letters from her and the rage she feels, combined with an example of love and independence provided by her close friend Shug, pushes her finally toward an awakening of her creative and loving self. |
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User Review - smallself - LibraryThingCelie’s dialect didn’t really bother me the second time through. ..................... “It is said that the children of the very poor are not brought up, but dragged up.” Dickens ... Read full review
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User Review - Tess_W - LibraryThingThis is an epistolary novel with letters written by Celie, to God, asking about her condition. The story takes place in rural Georgia from about 1900-1936. African-Americans weren't officially slaves ... Read full review
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| Title | The Color Purple Harvest book Pulitzer Prize in letters: Fiction Pulitzer Prize |
| Author | Alice Walker |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003 |
| ISBN | 0156031825, 9780156031820 |
| Length | 294 pages |
| Subjects | › FICTION / Classics FICTION / Media Tie-In FICTION / Sagas Fiction / Literary |
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