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19598 Media Alice Walker Media Pulitzer Prize Alice Walker - The Color Purple: A Novel

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This new edition celebrates the 10th anniversary of Walker's Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winner. "If it is true that it is what we run from that chases us, then The Color Purple is the book that ran me down while I sat with my back to it in a field".--from Walker's new preface.

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Sifting For Beauty: The Color Purple
Aug 28, 2001

Pros: Well written, heady subject matter, emotionally evocative

Cons: some topics are disturbing...

Bottom Line: Must read.

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Dear God
Jul 26, 2002

Pros: Very powerful; "Deep" yet written in very colloquial text.

Cons: Sometimes manipulative and boring when it comes to the character Nettie

Bottom Line: If you give it a chance, this'll be a truly satisfactory read that will take you through all shades of life and put new meaning on your own.

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The Color Purple: Hope and Triumph Through Difficult Times
Nov 05, 2003

Pros: A quick read that is moving and emotional.

Cons: The latter third of the book is more slow moving than the first 2/3rds.

Bottom Line: The Color Purple is a heart-wrenching tale of a young woman living through difficult times, who miraculously finds a way to triumph in the end.

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Hope Blooms From The Color Purple
May 12, 2001

Pros: inspirational

Cons: language may be hard to read, not for the sensitive

Bottom Line: The Color Purple is a story of one woman's triumph over her hardships.

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"The More I Wonder, the More I Love"
Aug 25, 2001

Pros: great emotional impact; remarkable characters; beautiful message about life; strong social comment

Cons: very sad; disturbing scenes - not for young readers

Bottom Line: The Color Purple is one of those rare books that stay with you long after you're done with it. Its lesson about living is truly beautiful.

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A powerful, heartbreaking and uplifting book
Oct 24, 2004

Pros: A great book about the power of love to uplift and ultimately to heal.

Cons: None.

Bottom Line: A contemporary classic about the transforming power of love and friendship.

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Alice Walker--The Godess/Womanist, Mother of Creation
Mar 28, 2005

Pros: A Beautiful Account of a life in.

Cons: -

Bottom Line: Alice Walker is a deity.

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"I think it Pi*ses God off if you walk past the Color Purple
Oct 06, 2000