The Color Purple

Hardcover, 290 pages

English language

Published Nov. 16, 1992 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers.

ISBN:
978-0-15-119154-3
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The principal voice is that of Celie, who has been raped by the man she believes to be her father, robbed of her two children, and married off to a man she hates. Her sister, Nettie,e escapes the same fate and is befriended by missionaries, man and wife, who have unwittingly adopted Celie's children. Separated for thirty years, the sisters live in ignorance of each other's circumstances. Nettie's letters do not reach Celie; and so great is Celie's sense of shame that she can write only to God. But life for Celie begins to change color when her husband's lover, a remarkable woman named Shug Avery, comes to live with them.

Honest, poignant, laughing, defiant, The Color Purple is a story about heroic lives, love, and the nature of God, and it breaks new ground in fiction with its portrayal of the bonding of women.

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Subjects

  • African American women -- Fiction
  • Adult child sexual abuse victims -- Fiction
  • Abused wives -- Fiction
  • Sisters -- Fiction
  • Southern States -- Fiction