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Color Purple
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Color Purple Unknown - 1996

by Alice Walker


About this book

The Color Purple is an acclaimed epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker. Taking place mostly in rural Georgia, this collection of letters weaves an intricate mosaic of women joined by their love for each other, the men who abuse them, and the children they care for. In this, The Color Purple focuses on black female life in the American South during the 1930s, addressing the numerous issues including their exceedingly low position in American social culture.

The novel received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award. Because of the explicit content, particularly in terms of violence, The Color Purple has been a frequent target of censors, appearing on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999.

First line

I am fourteen years old.

First Edition Identification

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich first published The Color Purple in New York in 1982. First editions state “First Edition” on the copyright page along with “BCDE,” the publisher’s code.

Details

  • Title Color Purple
  • Author Alice Walker
  • Binding unknown
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 253
  • Publisher Washington Square Press, New York
  • Date January 1996
  • ISBN 9780671668785
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by Alice Walker

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  • Paperback
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ISBN 13
9780671668785
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0671668781
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Color Purple

by Alice Walker

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ISBN 10
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