Title: The Color Purple Author(s): Alice Walker Pages: 100 Publisher: Harcourt; 1st edition Publication date: 1982 Language: English Format: TXT ISBN-10: 0151191530 ISBN-13: Description: The Color Purple is an acclaimed 1983 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker. It received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award. It was later adapted into a film and musical of the same name.
Taking place mostly in rural Georgia, the story focuses on female African American life during the 1930s in the Southern United States, addressing the numerous issues in the black female life, including their exceedingly low position in American social culture. Because of the novel's sometimes explicit content, particularly in terms of violence, it has been the frequent target of censors and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000 at number eighteen
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Title: The Color Purple