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The color purple / Alice Walker.

Walker, Alice, 1944- (Author).

Summary:

A woman who was raped by her father, deprived of the children she bore him and forced to marry a brutal man she calls "Mister" is transformed by the friendship of two remarkable women, acquiring self-worth and the strength to forgive.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0671458531
  • ISBN: 9780671458539
  • ISBN: 9780143135692
  • ISBN: 0671019074
  • ISBN: 0671668781
  • Physical Description: 253 pages ; 21 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Washington Square Press, 1983.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Publisher, dates, and paging may vary.
Target Audience Note:
HL670L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 4 9 7107.
Awards Note:
National Book Award for Fiction (Hardcover), 1983.
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1983.

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Subject:
African American women > Social conditions > Fiction.
Adult child sexual abuse victims > Fiction.
Abused wives > Fiction.
Sisters > Fiction.
Southern States > Fiction.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
Epistolary fiction.
Domestic fiction.

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  • 104 of 111 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Brown Library System.

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