Books with title Color Purple

1982 Washington Square Press trade paperback, 8th printing, Alice Walker (You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories). Celie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by the society around her and abused by her own family. She strives to protect her sister, Nettie, from a similar fate, and while Nettie escapes to a new life as a missionary in Africa, Celie is left behind without her best friend and confidante, married off to an older suitor, and sentenced to a life alone with a harsh and brutal husband.- Amazon

What would make the world a better place? Why, color, of course! Hannah and her friend Oscar decide the world is too boring and they're going to fix it with the color purple! Join them in Color Me Purple to find out how they put smiles on the faces of everyone! About the Author Cathy E. Mann resides in South Carolina with her husband Doug and her dog Hannah, who is the star and inspiration for her stories. This is her first published book.

Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and attempting to protect her sister from the same fate, and continuing over the course of her marriage to "Mister," a brutal man who terrorizes her. Celie eventually learns that her abusive husband has been keeping her sister's letters from her and the rage she feels, combined with an example of love and independence provided by her close friend Shug, pushes her finally toward an awakening of her creative and loving self.

Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and attempting to protect her sister from the same fate, and continuing over the course of her marriage to Mister, a brutal man who terrorizes her. Celie eventually learns that her abusive husband has been keeping her sister's letters from her and the rage she feels, combined with an example of love and independence provided by her close friend Shug, pushes her finally toward an awakening of her creative and loving self.

A special limited edition of nine classic novels produced to coincide with weidenfeld & nicolsons 60th anniversary designed by the award-winning advertising agency fallon with special endpapers commissioned from ground-breaking artists the endpapers for this title have been designed by carl kleiner set in the deep american south between the wars, this is the classic tale of celie, a young poor black girl raped repeatedly by her father, she loses two children and then is married off to a man who treats her no better than a slave she is separated from her sister nettie and dreams of becoming like the glamorous shug avery, a singer and rebellious black woman who has taken charge of her own destiny gradually celie discovers the support of women that enables her to leave the past behind and begin a new life one of the most haunting books you could ever wish to readit is stunning - moving, exciting, and wonderful lenny henry the pulitzer-prize winning novel that made alice walker a household name about the author: alice walker won the pulitzer prize and the american book award for the color purple she is the author of many bestselling novels, essays and collections of poetry including meridian, by the light of my fathers smile and the third life of grange copeland