The Resource The color purple, Alice Walker
The color purple, Alice Walker
- 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
- 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."
- Title
- The color purple
- Summary
- Two African American sisters, one a missionary in Africa and the other a child-wife living in the South, support each other through their correspondence, beginning in the 1920s
- Subject
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- Literary fiction
- Epistolary novels
- Family relationships
- Southern States
- African American fiction
- African American lesbians -- Southern States
- Loyalty in women
- Husband and wife
- Sisters -- Southern States
- African American women -- Southern States
- Modern classics
- First person narratives
- Multiple perspectives
- Separated friends, relatives, etc
- Southern fiction
- Books to movies
- Award
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- National Book Award for Fiction, 1983.
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1983.
- Awards note
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- National Book Award, 1983
- Pulitzer Prize, 1983
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- 060818
- Cataloging source
- BKX
- Dewey number
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- 813/.54
- [Fic]
- Index
- no index present
- Intended audience
- 670
- Intended audience source
- Lexile
- LC call number
- PS3573.A425
- LC item number
- C6 1992
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile
- 670
- Literary form
- fiction
- Target audience
- adult
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/titleStatement
- Alice Walker
- Label
- The color purple, Alice Walker
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- 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
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- 20660502
- System control number
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Subject
- Abused wives -- Fiction
- Adult child sexual abuse victims -- Fiction
- African American women -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Sisters -- Fiction
- Sisters -- Fiction
- Southern States -- Fiction
- Southern States -- Fiction
- African American fiction
- African American lesbians -- Southern States
- African American women -- Southern States
- Books to movies
- Epistolary novels
- Family relationships
- First person narratives
- Husband and wife
- Literary fiction
- Loyalty in women
- Modern classics
- Multiple perspectives
- Separated friends, relatives, etc
- Sisters -- Southern States
- Southern States
- Southern fiction
Genre
- Domestic fiction
- Fiction
- African American fiction
- Books to movies
- Epistolary novels
- First person narratives
- Literary fiction
- Modern classics
- Multiple perspectives
- Southern fiction
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Awards
Awards of The color purple, Alice Walker- Award
- National Book Award for Fiction, 1983.
- Award
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1983.
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