The Color Purple [2] – Walker, Alice

ISBN: 0151191530
Title: The Color Purple
Author: Walker, Alice
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York
Publication Date: 1982
Edition: Later Edition. Eighth Printing.
Book Condition: VG
D-j Condition: NF-

Comments: Bottom edge soiled. Fore-edge has marks. Spine cocked. Pages before title page are separating from inner hinge but still very well attached.

Synopsis: The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. It was later adapted into a film and musical of the same name.

Taking place mostly in rural Georgia, the story focuses on the life of women of color in the southern United States in the 1930s, addressing numerous issues including their exceedingly low position in American social culture. The novel has been the frequent target of censors and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000-2009 at number seventeen because of the sometimes explicit content, particularly in terms of violence.