The color purple /
Walker, Alice
The color purple / Alice Walker. - London : Phoenix, 2004. - 261 p. ; 20 cm.
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.
9780753818923
African American women--Fiction
Adult child sexual abuse victims--Fiction
Abused wives--Fiction
Southern States--Fiction
813
The color purple / Alice Walker. - London : Phoenix, 2004. - 261 p. ; 20 cm.
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.
9780753818923
African American women--Fiction
Adult child sexual abuse victims--Fiction
Abused wives--Fiction
Southern States--Fiction
813