The Color Purple by Alice Walker Paperback Book

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Author: Alice Walker

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Harcourt

Published: May 2003

Genre: Fiction - General

Retail Price: $15.99

Pages: 288

Synopsis

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

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