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by Alice Walker

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Last edited by AgentSapphire February 24, 2026 | History Edit An edition of The Color Purple (1976) The Color Purple 1st Harvest ed. (L)

by Alice Walker

• ★★★★ 4.2 (87 ratings)
• 1,594 Want to read
• 93 Currently reading
• 167 Have read

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Published to unprecedented acclaim, The Color Purple established Alice Walker as a major voice in modern fiction. This is the story of two sisters--one a missionary in Africa and the other a child wife living in the South--who sustain their loyalty to and trust in each other across time, distance, and silence. Beautifully imagined and deeply compassionate, this classic novel of American literature is rich with passion, pain, inspiration, and an indomitable love of life. --back cover

Publish Date 2004? Publisher Harcourt Language English Pages 288

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Fiction & Literature, Blacks, social life and customs, songs and music, Lesbian fiction, Epistolary fiction, Fiction, African American women, Sisters, Adult child sexual abuse victims, Abused wives, Domestic fiction, National Book Award Winner, award:national_book_award=1983, award:national_book_award=fiction, American fiction, African American authors, Social conditions, open_syllabus_project, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Language readers, Books that Shaped Work in America, Fictional Works Publication Type, African Continental Ancestry Group, Romans, Noires américaines, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, 1000blackgirlbooks, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Southern states, fiction, Sisters, fiction, African americans, fiction, Fiction, family life, Fiction, general, Fiction, african american, general, Large type books, Noires, Romans, nouvelles, Historical fiction, LGBTQ novels, Fiction, african american & black, general, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, family life, general, Vrouwenemancipatie, Racisme, Romans en novellen ; vertaald, American literature, Translations into Spanish, Spanish fiction, Spanish imprints, Roman espagnol, Imprimés espagnols, Lesbians, Friendship, Fictional Works [Publication Type]

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Celie, Nettie, Shug Avery, Albert, God, Samuel, Corrine, Alphonso, Adam, Olivia, Harpo, Sofia, Squeak, Sheriff Hodges, Grady, Germaine, Tashi

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Southern States, United States, Georgia, Africa, Tennessee

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1930s

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A Harvest Book

Published in Orlando Genre Fiction. Copyright Date 1982

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class 813/.54 Library of Congress PS3573.A425 C6 2003, PS3573.A425C6 2003, PS3573.A425 C65 2003

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Format Paperback Pagination 288 p. Number of pages 288

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Open Library OL3673322M ISBN 10 0156028352 ISBN 13 9780156028356 LCCN 2003005887 OCLC/WorldCat 1242289988 Amazon ID (ASIN) 0156028352 Google 8qzy7K9Z2ckC LibraryThing 283 Goodreads 45314458

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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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I am fourteen years old. added anonymously. You better not never tell nobody but God. added by Lisa.

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