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Author:

Walker, Alice.

Title:

The color purple : a novel / Alice Walker.

Publisher:

Mariner BooksHoughton Mifflin Harcourt,

Copyright Date:

1992

Description:

288 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

African American women--Fiction.
Adult child sexual abuse victims--Fiction.
Southern States--Fiction.
Abused wives--Fiction.
Sisters--Fiction.
African American women--Fiction.
Adult child sexual abuse victims--Fiction.
Southern States--Fiction.
Wife abuse--Fiction.
Sisters--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Epistolary fiction.

Notes:

Originally published: 1970.

Summary:

Tells the story of two African-American sisters: Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a child-wife living in the south, in the medium of their letters to each other and in Celie's case, the desperate letters she begins, "Dear God.".

ISBN:

054480502X
9780544805026

Locations:

AHPD597 -- Chariton Public Library (Chariton)