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This new edition celebrates the 10th anniversary of Walker's Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winner. "If it is true that it is what we run from that chases us, then The Color Purple is the book that ran me down while I sat with my back to it in a field".--from Walker's new preface.
 
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Sifting For Beauty: The Color Purple

Date of Review:  Aug 28, 2001
The Bottom Line: Must read.
Review: The Color Purple is a story that will make your heart ache to read it. From the very first page, the reader is forcefully gripped. This. This is what it was like. Brutal. Evocative. Hopeful.

Celie is a young black woman who, for much of...
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Hope Blooms From The Color Purple

Date of Review:  May 12, 2001
The Bottom Line: The Color Purple is a story of one woman's triumph over her hardships.
Review: I first read Alice Walker's The Color Purple when I was in high school. And no, I didn't read it for a class. I read it for fun. I had found it sitting in my mother's room, and remembered her asking me if I wanted to see The Color Purple when it was...
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Dear God

Date of Review:  Jul 26, 2002
The Bottom Line: If you give it a chance, this'll be a truly satisfactory read that will take you through all shades of life and put new meaning on your own.
Review: I am not even kidding, this is a coloring book. Alice Walker?s The Color Purple is a read that will add color to your life. Even though it starts off excruciatingly painful and depressing after you are done reading and set the book aside, it will be...
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Authors Alice Walker
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Awards 1983 National Book Award

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  New York Review of Books: "Remarkable expressiveness, color and poignancy...not only a memorable and infinitely touching character but a whole submerged world is vividly called into being."

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  Format: Hardcover - Prebinding
Publisher: Bt Bound (May 28, 2002)
Measurements: 8.25"(h) x 5.75"(w) x 1"(d), 0.85 lbs.
ISBN: 9781417632817
 
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Winning a Pulitzer Prize in 1983, this feminist novel about an abused and uneducated black woman s struggle for empowerment was praised for the depth of its female characters and for its eloquent use of black English vernacular.
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[Banner] Now a Tony Award-Winning Broadway Musical The Color Purple is the story of two sisters-one a missionary to Africa and the other a child wife living in the South-who remain loyal to one another across time, distance, and silence. Beautifully imagined and deeply compassionate, this classic of American literature is rich with passion, pain, inspiration, and an indomitable love of life."Intense emotional impact . . . Indelibly affecting . . . Alice Walker is a lavishly gifted writer."-The New York Times Book Review"Places Walker in the company of Faulkner."-The Nation"Superb . . . A work to stand beside literature of any time and place."-San Francisco Chronicle"The Color Purple is an American novel of permanent importance."-Newsw eek" Marvelous characters . . . A story of revelation . . . One of the great books of our time."--Essence [banner] Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award [bio]Bestselling novelist Alice Walker is also the author of three collections of short stories, three ...
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