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Alice Walker - The Color Purple: A Novel
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This new edition celebrates the 10th anniversary of Walker's Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winner. "If it is true that it is what we run from that chases us, then The Color Purple is the book that ran me down while I sat with my back to it in a field".--from Walker's new preface.
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| Description: ISBN13: 9780156028356. ISBN10: 0156028352. by Alice Walker and Andre Bernard. Published by Harcourt Trade Publishers. Edition: (REV)92 More at Textbooks.com | ||||
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| Authors | Alice Walker |
| Fiction Genre | Fiction |
| Fiction Subgenre | Conflicts & Dualities • Family & Friendship • Human Qualities & Behavior • Love, Relationships & Sex • Peoples & Cultures • Sisters - Fiction • Society & Social Issues • Abuse • Sisters • African American Women • Afro-American Women - Fiction • Family Life • Literary • Literary Genres & Types Of Novels • Types Of Characters |
| Awards | 1983 National Book Award, 1983 Pulitzer Prize |
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| Professional Reviews | Nation: "'The Color Purple' places Walker in the company of Faulkner.", New York Review of Books: "Remarkable expressiveness, color and poignancy...not only a memorable and infinitely touching character but a whole submerged world is vividly called into being.", New York Times Book Review: "Intense emotional impact....Indelibly affecting....Alice Walker is a lavishly gifted writer.", San Francisco Chronicle: "Superb....A work to stand beside literature of any time and place." |
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Sifting For Beauty: The Color Purple
Pros: Well written, heady subject matter, emotionally evocative Cons: some topics are disturbing... Bottom Line: Hope Blooms From The Color Purple
Pros: inspirational Cons: language may be hard to read, not for the sensitive Bottom Line: Alice Walker--The Godess/Womanist, Mother of Creation
Pros: A Beautiful Account of a life in. Cons: - Bottom Line: "The More I Wonder, the More I Love"
Pros: great emotional impact; remarkable characters; beautiful message about life; strong social comment Cons: very sad; disturbing scenes - not for young readers Bottom Line: "I think it Pi*ses God off if you walk past the Color Purple
Pros: The most perfect book I have ever read, endearing, triumphant, spiritual, moving, Cons: None at all Read More at Epinions.com A life-changing novel
Pros: Alice Walker is a prolific author with phenomenal command of characterization and plot. Cons: Parts of the book are very graphic and sometimes disturbing. Bottom Line: This book speaks volumes for those down-trotted and redeemed
Pros: Everything in so many ways Cons: Not a thing Read More at Epinions.com Inspirational and Educational
Pros: Concise regarding the challenges that Celie had to face Cons: Would have liked to known what became of the relationship of Celie and Mister. Read More at Epinions.com The Color Purple
Pros: Interesting tale of a beaten-down woman. Cons: Unrealistic elements. Bottom Line: |
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