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The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

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The Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning novel is now a new, boldly reimagined film from producers Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg, starring Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, and Fantasia Barrino. A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick Celie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by the society around her and abused by her own family. She strives to protect her sister, Nettie, from a similar fate, and while Nettie escapes to a new life as a missionary in Africa, Celie is lef...

First published: 1976 300 pages ISBN: 9781453223970
Category
Literature
Priority
Recommended
Author works
2
Language
eng
Subjects
Fiction & LiteratureBlackssocial life and customssongs and musicLesbian fictionEpistolary fictionFictionAfrican American womenSistersAdult child sexual abuse victims

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