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The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Color Purple
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Life wasn't easy for Celie. But she knew how to survive, needing little to get by.Then her husband's lover, a flamboyant blues singer, barreled into her world and gave Celie the courage to ask for more - to laugh, to play, and finally - to love.
Life wasn't easy for Celie. But she knew how to survive, needing little to get by.Then her husband's lover, a flamboyant blues singer, barreled into her world and gave Celie the courage to ask for more - to laugh, to play, and finally - to love.
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster
Pages no: 295
Edition language: English
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Abandoned by Booklikes
Abandoned by Booklikes rated it
5.0 The Color Purple
Wow. "The Color Purple" definitely holds up. I loved the movie when I saw it as a kid and I read the book for the first time in college. At the time I remember being shocked that it was a book. My professor at the time called Stephen Speilberg a coward for not depicting Shug and Ms. Celie's relation...
Summer Reading Project, BookLikes Satellite
Summer Reading Project, BookLikes Satellite rated it
3.0 The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
Alice Walker’s The Color Purple has a reputation. Everyone someone asked what I was reading this week, they mostly responded with an appalled, “Why?” The book (and the movie) has cut such a swath across American culture that even people who haven’t read the novel know that it’s about terrible abuse ...
LittleBookCove
LittleBookCove rated it
5.0
Set in the Deep south Georgia, And I can only think in 1920s or 1930s? We meet Celie and her sister. Right off the bat Celie drops a line in the book that rips you to your core of what she has to deal with. The entire book is told through Diary Entries, This book pulled at my heart strings. Because...
Chris Blocker
Chris Blocker rated it
3.0 Review: The Color Purple
When I have a ho-hum attitude about a well-received book that I expected to like, I have to wonder what I missed. The Color Purple was supposed to be great. Many reviewers I tend to agree with gave the novel their highest accolades. Typically, I agree with these sorts of books--Beloved and Ruby are ...
Reading For The Heck Of It
Reading For The Heck Of It rated it
4.0 Pants: More than just a leg covering
This was the first time I had read this classic despite it being on my radar for a looooong time. (I haven't seen the film either...) I have quite a few thoughts about this novel. In fact, I ended up taking notes so that I could let the story sink in a little further before I wrote up my final revie...
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