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The color purple : a novel / by Alice Walker

Catalog Data

Author:
Walker, Alice 1944-  Search this
Physical description:
245 pages ; 22 cm
Type:
Fiction
Epistolary fiction
Domestic fiction
Place:
Southern States
Date:
1982
Notes:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 4.0 9.0 7107.
National Book Award for Fiction, 1983.
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1983.
Summary:
Set in the period between the world wars, this novel tells of two sisters, their trials, and their survival.
Topic:
African American women  Search this
Adult child sexual abuse victims  Search this
Abused wives  Search this
Sisters  Search this
Sisters--Fiction  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1094227