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The Color Purple
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The Color Purple Mass market paperbound - 1990

by Alice Walker


About this book

The Color Purple is an acclaimed epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker. Taking place mostly in rural Georgia, this collection of letters weaves an intricate mosaic of women joined by their love for each other, the men who abuse them, and the children they care for. In this, The Color Purple focuses on black female life in the American South during the 1930s, addressing the numerous issues including their exceedingly low position in American social culture.

The novel received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award. Because of the explicit content, particularly in terms of violence, The Color Purple has been a frequent target of censors, appearing on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999.

First Edition Identification

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich first published The Color Purple in New York in 1982. First editions state “First Edition” on the copyright page along with “BCDE,” the publisher’s code.

Details

  • Title The Color Purple
  • Author Alice Walker
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 295
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Pocket Books, New York, New York, U.S.A
  • Date 1990-04
  • ISBN 9780671727796 / 0671727796
  • Weight 0.32 lbs (0.15 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.8 x 4.17 x 0.85 in (17.27 x 10.59 x 2.16 cm)
  • Reading level 670
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Sisters
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 81048242
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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