Fiction
The Color Purple
By Alice Walker
About this book
Celie begins by writing letters to God about life in rural Georgia. As she forms relationships with women who help her imagine a different future, the letters open into a wider story that also follows her sister Nettie. Walker traces changes in Celie’s language alongside changes in what she can ask for and choose.
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Paperback · Penguin Books · ISBN 9780143135692
Edition and subjects
- Publisher
- Paperview
- Edition date
- 2004
- First published
- 1982