Name: The Color Purple von Alice Walker
SKU: 9780297858867
Price: 28.99 EUR
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The Color Purple Zusammenfassung

The Color Purple Alice Walker

A special limited edition of nine classic novels produced to coincide with Weidenfeld & Nicolson's 60th anniversary. Designed by the award-winning advertising agency Fallon with special endpapers commissioned from ground-breaking artists. The endpapers for this title have been designed by Carl Kleiner.

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.

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

The Color Purple Bewertungen

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 *

Über Alice Walker

Alice Walker won the Pulitzer prize and the American Book Award for The Color Purple. She is the author of many bestselling novels, essays and collections of poetry.

Zusätzliche Informationen

Sku

GOR003027950

ISBN 13

9780297858867

ISBN 10

0297858866

Titel

The Color Purple Alice Walker

Autor

Alice Walker

Zustand

Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Gebundene Ausgabe

Verlag

Orion Publishing Co

Datum

20090702

Anzahl der Seiten

272

Preise

N/A

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