The Colour Purple by Alice Walker

The Colour Purple by Alice WalkerThe classic, Pulitzer Prize winning novel with a new introductory letter from Alice Walker. A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance and silence through a series of letters spanning twenty years, first from Celie to

Geamhar – a field of corn-grass

her quest led her to write this classic meditation on the magnificence of mountains

we can begin to turn to pioneering new solutions - ones that offer real hope

often with disastrous consequences

from different centuries - Robbie

their hectic sexuality

And it sticks to your shoe

heart-breaking

'A delight from start to finish

It is the perfect novel for our haunted times

She tries to ignore the strange whispers and looks from the villagers

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