The colour purple alice walker6/6/2023 And then I went back, the next day, and bought every copy they had'Ī powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. 'I got the book and read it, in one day, when it came out. 'I think that The Color Purple was the first book that made me think that I could try to be a writer - or that made me aware that a young black woman from the South could write about the South' Every single time I read this book, I walk away as a slightly better person than I was when I picked it up' ' The Color Purple is my go-to comfort novel. I love that The Color Purple doesn't try to soften its blows but is also courageous enough to hold on to a wonderfully affirming faith in possibility, in forgiveness and kindness and hope' 'A lush celebration of all that it means to be a black female. ONE OF THE BBC '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD' THE ICONIC CLASSIC, WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE NAMED ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD The classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel with a new introductory letter from Alice Walker.
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