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Mar 1, 1982 · The Color Purple by Alice Walker is a delightful read despite having a heartbreaking plot. Alice Walker depicted the struggles of people, especially women, who are placed at a disadvantage in life by society and by their circumstances.
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Alice Walker offers a vivid, wrenching portrayal of the harsh circumstances and limited opportunities for poor, uneducated African American women in the early 1900s. The Color Purple also chronicles a woman's inspiring journey from abuse to independence and self-actualization.
Jun 28, 1982 · Kirkus Prize winner. National Book Award Finalist. Four men who meet as college roommates move to New York and spend the next three decades gaining renown in their professions—as an architect, painter, actor and lawyer—and struggling with demons in their intertwined personal lives.
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"The Color Purple" is foremost the story of Celie, a poor, barely literate Southern black woman who struggles to escape the brutality and degradation of her treatment by men. The tale is...
Jun 1, 1982 · A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, 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.
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Feb 1, 2021 · The Color Purple (1982) is an epistolary novel set in the interwar period of the early twentieth century. It begins with a 14-year-old girl named Celie writing to God about the sexual abuse...
Feb 10, 2021 · The Color Purple is epistolary in style –it is told through a series of letters written by Celie, a young black girl living in the South during the 1930s. At the outset, The Color Purple is dedicated to the “Spirit.”
