The Color Purple (Signed)

WALKER, Alice

ISBN 10: 0151191530 / ISBN 13: 9780151191536

Published by Harcourt Brace & World, New York, 1982

About this Item

Bound in purple cloth over white boards. Endpapers professionally restored and book tightened. (slight bumping to one corner). Dust jacket is in great condition, just shows a hint of rubbing to bottom edge. A tight, clean copy of the fourth impression of the first edition (with "DE" on the bottom line of the copyright page), in the exact same format and with the same dust jacket as the first impression. Won the Pulitzer Prize and was the basis for the Steven Spielberg movie of the same name. In the same format as the first edition and also has the first state dust jacket. Inscribed and signed on a tipped in page, "For Joan - Peace and Sisterhood" and dated in the year of publication. 244 pp. Seller Inventory # 7000854

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Color Purple (Signed)

Publisher: Harcourt Brace & World, New York

Publication Date: 1982

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Signed: Inscribed and Signed

Edition: Fourth Impression.

About this title

Synopsis:

This book tells the story of Celie. Raped by the man she calls father, her two children taken from her and forced into an ugly marriage, she has no one to talk to but God, until she meets a woman who offers love and support.

Review:

A genuinely mind-expanding book. (Patrick Ness GUARDIAN)

She is one of the most gifted writers in her country (Isabel Allende)

The Color Purple is a work to stand beside literature for any time and any place. It needs no category other than the fact that it is superb (Rita Mae Brown)

The Color Purple is a lush celebration of all that it means to be female, to be a black female and like the best of celebrations, it is an honest one. Alice Walker's honesty in this book is combative, relentless and redemptive. It is from this honesty that bitterness emerges, and yet the bitterness never blights the encompassing humanity of Walker's vision.I love that The Color Purple doesn't try to soften its blows but is also courageous enough to hold on to a wonderfully affirming faith in possibility, in forgiveness and kindness and hope. (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)

The great irony about The Color Purple is that it transcends colour. To do that you have to be a magician or a genius. This book works on all levels, the political, the historical, the personal, the emotional, the spiritual . . . Not a word is wasted, every breath accounted for. We all know that this is one of the greatest books of all time. (Benjamin Zephaniah)

A unique blend of serenity and immediacy that makes your senses ache (Helen Dunmore)

Alice Walker is a lavishly gifted writer (New York Times)

A fable for the modern world (Washington Post)

A stunning, brilliantly conceived book . . . a saga filled with joy and pain, humor and bitterness, and an array of characters who live, breathe and illuminate the world of black women (Publishers Weekly)

One of the most haunting books you could ever wish to read ... it is stunning - moving, exciting, and wonderful (Lenny Henry)

The Color Purple has been read and reread by millions. Forget lilac, mauve and lavendar: this is the royal purple. (The Times)