The Color Purple
About this book
The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction.
The novel has been the frequent target of censors and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000–2009 at number seventeenth because of the sometimes explicit content, particularly in terms of violence. In 2003, the book was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novels."
Also contained in:
- The Third Life of Grange Copeland / Meridian / The Color Purple
Subjects
- 1000blackgirlbooks
- abused wives
- adult child sexual abuse victims
- african american authors
- african americans, fiction
- african american women
- african continental ancestry group
- american fiction
- american fiction (fictional works by one author)
- award:national_book_award=1983
- award:national_book_award=fiction
- blacks
- books that shaped work in america
- domestic fiction
- epistolary fiction
- fiction
- fiction, african american & black, general
- fiction, african american, general
- fictional works publication type
- fiction, family life
- fiction, family life, general
- fiction, general
- fiction & literature
- historical fiction
- language readers
- large type books
- lesbian fiction
- lgbtq novels
- long now manual for civilization
- national book award winner
- new york times reviewed
- noires
- noires américaines
- open_syllabus_project
- racisme
- reading level-grade 10
- reading level-grade 11
- reading level-grade 12
- reading level-grade 7
- reading level-grade 8
- reading level-grade 9
- romans
- romans, nouvelles
- sisters
- sisters, fiction
- social conditions
- social life and customs
- songs and music
- southern states, fiction
- vrouwenemancipatie