The Color Purple SIGNED Alice Walker 10th Anniversary ED Pulitzer Prize HCDJ COA

by Alice Walker

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The Color Purple by Alice Walker - copyright 1992 10th Anniversary Edition - hardcover book with dustjacket is in very good condition - dustjacket is in very good condition with no wear - book inside has no other writing nor torn or missing pages ............Excellent Addition to your Collection!!! Signed on title page "Alice Walker" Walker (In Love and Trouble, Meridian) has set herself the task of an epistolary novel—and she scores strongly with it. The time is in the Thirties; a young, black, Southern woman named Celie is the primary correspondent (God being her usual addressee); and the life described in her letters is one of almost impossible grimness. While young, Celie is raped by a stepfather. (Even worse, she believes him to be her real father.) She's made to bear two children that are then taken away from her. She's married off without her consent to an older man, Albert, who'd rather have Celie's sister Nettie—and, by sacrificing her body to Albert without love or feeling, Celie saves her sister, making it possible for her to escape: soon Nettle goes to Africa to work as a Christian missionary. Eventually, then, halfway through the book, as Celie's sub-literate dialect letters to God continue to mount (eventually achieving the naturalness and intensity of music, equal in beauty to Eudora Welty's early dialect stories), letters from Nettie in Africa begin to arrive. But Celie doesn't see them—because Albert holds them back from her. And it's only when Celie finds an

• Year: 1992
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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