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1 de mar. de 1982 · A review of the novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker, a famous story of struggling African-American women. The review covers the plot, characters, themes, language, setting, and historical context of the book.
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21 de fev. de 2021 · A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance and silence.
1 de jun. de 1982 · The Color Purple is a novel by Alice Walker, published in 1982, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1983. Forty years later, it is still considered an important work of feminist African American fiction. The book deals with the struggle for empowerement and emancipation of an uneducated and abused Black woman.
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Kirkus Prize winner. National Book Award Finalist. Four men who meet as college roommates move to New York and spend the next three decades gaining renown in their professions—as an architect, painter, actor and lawyer—and struggling with demons in their intertwined personal lives.
- Kirkus Reviews
"The Color Purple" is foremost the story of Celie, a poor, barely literate Southern black woman who struggles to escape the brutality and degradation of her treatment by men. The tale is told...
1 de fev. de 2021 · A new book by Salamishah Tillet explores the challenges and achievements of Alice Walker's novel, from its depiction of sexual violence to its Broadway musical. The book also examines the impact of The Color Purple on Black women's activism and representation.
10 de fev. de 2021 · If you look for it, however, you can find praise for its unique modernist use of local color and dialogue (even if the novel’s preachiness is masked by its poetically crafted cadences), but on the whole The Color Purple is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel I would not soon revisit again.
