In Meridian, Alice Walker wrote the classic novel of the civil rights movement. Her new novel goes back to the period between the World Wars. It tells the story of two sisters: one a missionary in Africa and the other a child-wife living in the South, who sustain their loyalty …
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In Meridian, Alice Walker wrote the classic novel of the civil rights movement. Her new novel goes back to the period between the World Wars. It tells the story of two sisters: one a missionary in Africa and the other a child-wife living in the South, who sustain their loyalty and trust in each other across time, distance, and silence, in one of the most unusual and moving exchanges in fiction.
The principal voice is that of Celie, who has been raped by the man she believes to be her father, robbed of her two children, and married off to a man she hates. Her sister, Nettie,e escapes the same fate and is befriended by missionaries, man and wife, who have unwittingly adopted Celie's children. Separated for thirty years, the sisters live in ignorance of each other's circumstances. Nettie's letters do not reach Celie; and so great is Celie's sense of shame that she can write only to God. But life for Celie begins to change color when her husband's lover, a remarkable woman named Shug Avery, comes to live with them.
Honest, poignant, laughing, defiant, The Color Purple is a story about heroic lives, love, and the nature of God, and it breaks new ground in fiction with its portrayal of the bonding of women.
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- LibraryThing key:
- 283
- BNF ID:
- 13511793n
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La Couleur Pourpre
Mass Market Paperback, 251 pagine
lingua French
Pubblicato il 08 Novembre 1984 da Editions 84.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-277-22123-4ISBN copiato!
- GoodReads:
- 1805655
The Color Purple (Read a Great Movie)
Paperback, 256 pagine
Pubblicato il 24 Marzo 2005 da Orion.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7528-6434-1ISBN copiato!
Die Farbe Lila. Roman.
Paperback
lingua German
Pubblicato il 01 Gennaio 2000 da Rowohlt Tb..
- ISBN:
- 978-3-499-22790-5ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 76182815
The Color Purple
paperback
Pubblicato il 01 Giugno 1999 da York Notes.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4746-0725-4ISBN copiato!
La couleur pourpre
343, pagine
lingua French
Pubblicato il 30 Ottobre 2008
- ISBN:
- 978-2-221-11053-9ISBN copiato!
- GoodReads:
- 3160947
The Color Purple
262, pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 24 Luglio 2004
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7538-1892-3ISBN copiato!
- GoodReads:
- 827791
The Color Purple
262, pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 01 Gennaio 2014
- ISBN:
- 978-1-78022-871-6ISBN copiato!
The color purple
245, pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 08 Novembre 1983 da Women's Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7043-3905-7ISBN copiato!
- GoodReads:
- 58375265
Color Purple
Mass Market Paperback
Pubblicato il 15 Marzo 1987 da Pocket.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-671-64745-2ISBN copiato!
The Color Purple (Large Print))
Hardcover, 348 pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 08 Novembre 1992 da Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-56865-350-1ISBN copiato!
La Couleur Pourpre
252, pagine
lingua French
Pubblicato il 24 Luglio 2001 da J'ai Lu.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-290-02123-1ISBN copiato!
- GoodReads:
- 1805656
Die Farbe Lila
213, pagine
lingua German
Pubblicato il 24 Luglio 1984 da Rowohlt Verlag.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-499-15427-0ISBN copiato!
- GoodReads:
- 1815431
The Color Purple
Hardcover
lingua English
Pubblicato il 08 Gennaio 1996 da Buccaneer Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-56849-628-3ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 232844940
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