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| Title Statement | The color purple / Alice Walker. |
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| Alternative Title(s) | Colour purple |
| Author | Walker, Alice, 1944- |
| Publication | Toronto, ON: Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Canada,2023.©1982 |
| Extent of Item | xii, 286 pages ; |
| ISBN | 9780735248755 (trade paperback) |
| Other Number | pr07279913 |
| General Notes | Originally published in the United States of America: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982. |
| Summary | The color purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance, and silence. Through a series of letters spanning twenty years, first from Celie to God, then from the sisters to each other, the novel draws readers into the experiences of Celie, Nettie, Shug Avery, and Sofia. |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Topic | Abused wives--Fiction |
| Adult child sexual abuse victims--Fiction | |
| African American women--Fiction | |
| Sisters--Fiction | |
| By Location | Southern States--Fiction |
| By Genre | Bildungsromans |
| Domestic fiction | |
| Epistolary fiction | |
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