The color purple

Walker, Alice, 1944- (Author).

This book tells the story of Celie. Raped by the man she calls father, her two children taken from her and forced into an ugly marriage, she pours out her feelings in letters to God, but has no one to talk to, until she meets a woman who offers love and support.

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African American women > Fiction.
Adult child sexual abuse victims > Fiction.
Abused wives > Fiction.
Sisters > Fiction.
Southern States > Fiction.

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Epistolary fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.
Novels.

ISBN: 9780156028356
Physical Description 288 pages ; 21 cm
Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2003.
Copyright ©1982.

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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1983.

National Book Award, 1983.

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