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The Color Purple

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker (Author)

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    Paperback 2007

    $37.04

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    Paperback 1996

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    Hardcover 1990

    $6.92
Synopsis

'One of the most haunting books you could ever wish to read...it is stunning - moving, exciting, and wonderful' Lenny Henry Set in the deep American south between the wars, this is the classic tale of Celie, a young poor black girl. Raped repeatedly by her father, she loses two children and then is married off to a man who treats her no better than a slave. She is separated from her sister Nettie and dreams of becoming like the glamorous Shug Avery, a singer and rebellious black woman who has taken charge of her own destiny. Gradually Celie discovers the support of women that enables her to leave the past behind and begin a new life.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 288
 Edition: 25th Anniversary ed
 Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 21 Jun 2007
ISBN 10: 029785335X
ISBN 13: 9780297853350
Book Overview: To include a new Foreword by Alice Walker, new cover, purple ribbon, head and tail bands, purple boards - a beautiful edition for anyone who loves the book and a great present for anyone who is yet to read this classic The Color Purple has sold over 1 million copies in Britain alone and continues to sell around 40,000 every year - 25 years after first publication! The Color Purple was made into an award-winning film by Steven Spielberg starring Whoopie Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey It won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award 'The Color Purple is a story that stays with you forever. It's there morning, noon and night and right beside you every time you try and lose yourself in another tale. It's been with me for twenty years now and refuses to gather dust on the bookshelf of my life' Dotun Adebayo

Media Reviews
A genuinely mind-expanding book. -- Patrick Ness * GUARDIAN *
She is one of the most gifted writers in her country -- Isabel Allende
The Color Purple is a work to stand beside literature for any time and any place. It needs no category other than the fact that it is superb -- Rita Mae Brown
The Color Purple is a lush celebration of all that it means to be female, to be a black female and like the best of celebrations, it is an honest one. Alice Walker's honesty in this book is combative, relentless and redemptive. It is from this honesty that bitterness emerges, and yet the bitterness never blights the encompassing humanity of Walker's vision.I love that The Color Purple doesn't try to soften its blows but is also courageous enough to hold on to a wonderfully affirming faith in possibility, in forgiveness and kindness and hope. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The great irony about The Color Purple is that it transcends colour. To do that you have to be a magician or a genius. This book works on all levels, the political, the historical, the personal, the emotional, the spiritual . . . Not a word is wasted, every breath accounted for. We all know that this is one of the greatest books of all time. -- Benjamin Zephaniah
A unique blend of serenity and immediacy that makes your senses ache -- Helen Dunmore
Alice Walker is a lavishly gifted writer * New York Times *
A fable for the modern world * Washington Post *
A stunning, brilliantly conceived book . . . a saga filled with joy and pain, humor and bitterness, and an array of characters who live, breathe and illuminate the world of black women * Publishers Weekly *
One of the most haunting books you could ever wish to read ... it is stunning - moving, exciting, and wonderful * Lenny Henry *
The Color Purple has been read and reread by millions. Forget lilac, mauve and lavendar: this is the royal purple. * The Times *
Author Bio
Alice Walker won the Pulitzer prize and the American Book Award for The Color Purple. She is the author of many bestselling novels, essays and collections of poetry.