4.2
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
Now a Broadway musical
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Winner of the National Book Award
Published to unprecedented acclaim, The Color Purple established Alice Walker as a major voice in modern fiction. This is the story of two sisters one a missionary in Africa and the other a child wife living in the South who sustain their loyalty to and trust in each other across time, distance, and silence. Beautifully imagined and deeply compassionate, this classic novel of American literature is rich with passion, pain, inspiration, and an indomitable love of life.
Intense emotional impact . . . Indelibly affecting . . . Alice Walker is a lavishly gifted writer. New York Times Book Review
Places Walker in the company of Faulkner. The Nation
Superb . . . A work to stand beside literature of any time and place. San Francisco Chronicle
A novel of permanent importance. Peter S. Prescott, Newsweek
ALICE WALKER is an internationally celebrated writer, poet, and activist whose books include seven novels, four collections of short stories, four children s books, and volumes of essays and poetry. Her books have been translated into more than two dozen languages. Born in Eatonton, Georgia, Walker now lives in northern California.
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Winner of the National Book Award
Published to unprecedented acclaim, The Color Purple established Alice Walker as a major voice in modern fiction. This is the story of two sisters one a missionary in Africa and the other a child wife living in the South who sustain their loyalty to and trust in each other across time, distance, and silence. Beautifully imagined and deeply compassionate, this classic novel of American literature is rich with passion, pain, inspiration, and an indomitable love of life.
Intense emotional impact . . . Indelibly affecting . . . Alice Walker is a lavishly gifted writer. New York Times Book Review
Places Walker in the company of Faulkner. The Nation
Superb . . . A work to stand beside literature of any time and place. San Francisco Chronicle
A novel of permanent importance. Peter S. Prescott, Newsweek
ALICE WALKER is an internationally celebrated writer, poet, and activist whose books include seven novels, four collections of short stories, four children s books, and volumes of essays and poetry. Her books have been translated into more than two dozen languages. Born in Eatonton, Georgia, Walker now lives in northern California.
"
FictionClassicsSagasLiteraryMedia Tie-InFamily Life
RELEASED2015
PUBLISHERMariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
LENGTH288
LANGUAGEEN
An American novelist, short-story writer, poet, essayist, and activist.
4.2
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
Now a Broadway musical
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Winner of the National Book Award
Published to unprecedented acclaim, The Color Purple established Alice Walker as a major voice in modern fiction. This is the story of two sisters one a missionary in Africa and the other a child wife living in the South who sustain their loyalty to and trust in each other across time, distance, and silence. Beautifully imagined and deeply compassionate, this classic novel of American literature is rich with passion, pain, inspiration, and an indomitable love of life.
Intense emotional impact . . . Indelibly affecting . . . Alice Walker is a lavishly gifted writer. New York Times Book Review
Places Walker in the company of Faulkner. The Nation
Superb . . . A work to stand beside literature of any time and place. San Francisco Chronicle
A novel of permanent importance. Peter S. Prescott, Newsweek
ALICE WALKER is an internationally celebrated writer, poet, and activist whose books include seven novels, four collections of short stories, four children s books, and volumes of essays and poetry. Her books have been translated into more than two dozen languages. Born in Eatonton, Georgia, Walker now lives in northern California.
"
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Winner of the National Book Award
Published to unprecedented acclaim, The Color Purple established Alice Walker as a major voice in modern fiction. This is the story of two sisters one a missionary in Africa and the other a child wife living in the South who sustain their loyalty to and trust in each other across time, distance, and silence. Beautifully imagined and deeply compassionate, this classic novel of American literature is rich with passion, pain, inspiration, and an indomitable love of life.
Intense emotional impact . . . Indelibly affecting . . . Alice Walker is a lavishly gifted writer. New York Times Book Review
Places Walker in the company of Faulkner. The Nation
Superb . . . A work to stand beside literature of any time and place. San Francisco Chronicle
A novel of permanent importance. Peter S. Prescott, Newsweek
ALICE WALKER is an internationally celebrated writer, poet, and activist whose books include seven novels, four collections of short stories, four children s books, and volumes of essays and poetry. Her books have been translated into more than two dozen languages. Born in Eatonton, Georgia, Walker now lives in northern California.
"
FictionClassicsSagasLiteraryMedia Tie-InFamily LifeSiblingsAfrican American & Black
RELEASED2015
PUBLISHERMariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
LENGTH288
LANGUAGEEN
An American novelist, short-story writer, poet, essayist, and activist.
