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The Color Purple

Alice Walker

2

awards won

28

score

#45 of 8,085 books · #26 in Fiction

Won the National Book Award for Fiction (1983) and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1983). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 1 other award.

Set in the period between the world wars, this novel tells of two sisters, their trials, and their survival.

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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN-13
9781568653501
Genre
Fiction
Topics
SisterhoodSurvivalRacial and gender oppression

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