![]() ![]() ![]() From the first page, Walker sets the novel’s frank and vernacular tone, as Celie narrates her victimization to God in brief, vignette-like epistles:įirst he put his thing up gainst my hip and sort of wiggle it around. Living among the black rural poor and working class in the South, she writes letters to God confiding what she cannot tell anyone else: that her father has raped her, that she has borne two of his children, and that her mother has gone insane and died. An epistolary novel, its initial and main narrator is a teenaged girl named Celie. ![]() In fewer than 300 pages, The Color Purple spans three decades and three continents in a fairly brief compass. It remains widely read and loved but both the novel and its author have been scrutinized for every sin from New Age sentimentality to complicity with racism. Alice Walker’s 1982 Pulitzer-Prize-winning, Spielberg-filmed, Oprah-inspiring novel is a contentious contemporary classic. ![]()
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