The Resource The color purple, Alice Walker
The color purple, Alice Walker
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The item The color purple, Alice Walker represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Adams Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item The color purple, Alice Walker represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Adams Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- 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."
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 288 pages
- Isbn
- 9780151191543
- Label
- The color purple
- Title
- The color purple
- Statement of responsibility
- Alice Walker
- Subject
-
- trueLiterary fiction
- Southern States -- Fiction
- trueEpistolary novels
- trueFamily relationships
- Domestic fiction
- trueSouthern States
- trueAfrican American fiction
- African American women -- Fiction
- trueAfrican American lesbians -- Southern States
- Abused wives -- Fiction
- trueLoyalty in women
- Sisters -- Fiction
- trueHusband and wife
- Adult child sexual abuse victims -- Fiction
- trueSisters -- Southern States
- trueAfrican American women -- Southern States
- trueModern classics
- trueFirst person narratives
- Sisters -- Fiction
- trueMultiple perspectives
- Southern States -- Fiction
- trueSeparated friends, relatives, etc
- trueSouthern fiction
- trueBooks to movies
- Language
- eng
- 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."
- Summary
- The lives of two sisters--Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a southern woman married to a man she hates--are revealed in a series of letters exchanged over thirty years
- Award
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- National Book Award for Fiction, 1983.
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1983.
- Great American Read, 2018.
- Awards note
-
- National Book Award, 1983
- Pulitzer Prize, 1983
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 060818
- Cataloging source
- BKX
- Dewey number
-
- 813/.54
- [Fic]
- Index
- no index present
- Intended audience
- 670
- Intended audience source
- Lexile
- LC call number
- PS3573.A425
- LC item number
- C6 1992
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The color purple, Alice Walker
- Link
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 20660502
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 288 pages
- Isbn
- 9780151191543
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocm65173552
- (OCoLC)65173552
- Label
- The color purple, Alice Walker
- Link
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 20660502
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 288 pages
- Isbn
- 9780151191543
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocm65173552
- (OCoLC)65173552
Subject
- Abused wives -- Fiction
- Adult child sexual abuse victims -- Fiction
- trueAfrican American fiction
- trueAfrican American lesbians -- Southern States
- African American women -- Fiction
- trueAfrican American women -- Southern States
- trueBooks to movies
- Domestic fiction
- trueEpistolary novels
- trueFamily relationships
- trueFirst person narratives
- trueHusband and wife
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueLoyalty in women
- trueModern classics
- trueMultiple perspectives
- trueSeparated friends, relatives, etc
- Sisters -- Fiction
- Sisters -- Fiction
- trueSisters -- Southern States
- trueSouthern States
- Southern States -- Fiction
- Southern States -- Fiction
- trueSouthern fiction
Genre
- trueAfrican American fiction
- trueBooks to movies
- trueDomestic fiction
- trueEpistolary novels
- Fiction
- trueFirst person narratives
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueModern classics
- trueMultiple perspectives
- trueSouthern fiction
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