I am fourteen years old.
An edition of The Color Purple
(1976)
The Color Purple
Phoenix paperback edition (38)
by Alice Walker, Translator Lunine Pierre-Jerome, Alice Walker, and Alice Walker
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Set in the deep American South between the wars, this is the tale of Celie, a young black girl born into poverty and segregation. Raped repeatedly by the man she calls 'father', she has two children taken away from her, is separated from her beloved sister Nettie, and is trapped into an ugly marriage. But then she meets the glamorous Shug Avery, singer and magic-maker - a woman who has taken charge of her own destiny. Gradually Celie discovers the power and joy of her own spirit, freeing her from her past and reuniting her with those she loves.
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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, FriendshipPeople
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The Color Purple
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The Color Purple
1985-12, Pocket Books
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1985, Pocket Books
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The Color Purple
1983-06, Washington Square Press
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Pulitzer prize for fiction winner, 1983.
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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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