The Color Purple

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• Black Victims, Black Villains

  Steven Spielberg’s The Color Purple might as well have been about a bunch of dancing eggplants for all it has to say about black history. In its disregard of black life outside its cartoon images, the film is a throwback to Marc Connelly’s The Green ... (read full critics)

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  Touching, cruel, real story. Celie's words touch our soul and her feelings changing into joy make us believe in a God that lives inside us.

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  Tonichka said on Jan 7, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  My first book in English

  I saw the movie so many times and loved it so much that when I went to New York to see the Musical I wanted to buy the book before coming back to Italy because this is one of those stories that need to be read in their native language. This book is a masterpiece and it is so clear and easy to read, ... (continue)

  I saw the movie so many times and loved it so much that when I went to New York to see the Musical I wanted to buy the book before coming back to Italy because this is one of those stories that need to be read in their native language. This book is a masterpiece and it is so clear and easy to read, even if a lot of the 1930s black American's English is used. Absolutely perfect.

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  masmassy said on Oct 13, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  It took a little bit to me entering Celie's rotten and ungrammatical world, and I can't say it's been easy: I mean, I got used to her peculiar vocabulary fairly soon, but still there was something slipping, something disturbing about that, maybe because it was the only way I could penetrate the envi ... (continue)

  It took a little bit to me entering Celie's rotten and ungrammatical world, and I can't say it's been easy: I mean, I got used to her peculiar vocabulary fairly soon, but still there was something slipping, something disturbing about that, maybe because it was the only way I could penetrate the environment where she lives, or better, try to survive. Apart from that, I give Alice Walker just two stars not because she's not worth them, but because I've never been crazy about epistolary novels, although the idea of this woman whose only relief in life is writing to God is very original and somehow even tender. I would have appreciated a little bit of narration, even from other characters' point of view, such as Albert's, Harpo's, Sophia's...

  PLOT: Celie lives in the Deep South of United States of America and her life is a hell on earth. Raped by the man she calls father, her mother forced to bed on account of a cruel illness, left by her sister Nettie who escaped from home, married to a man, Albert, to whom she's less than a servant, her life changes when she meets Shug Avery, a singer who used to date with her usband before he got married. Shug is very ill and nobody but Albert is willing to take care of her, so she moves to his house. At first she's very mean to Celie, but little by little the two of them instituide a special friendship who will help Celie to raise her head and get going on her way...

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  ~Ais Quìn~ said on Feb 10, 2009 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Mass Market Paperback 304 Pages
• Edition: Reissue
• ISBN-10: 0671727796
• ISBN-13: 9780671727796
• Publisher: Pocket
• Pub date: Apr 01, 1990
• Dimensions: 1226 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Library Binding, School & Library Binding, Others and eBook
• In other languages: other languages 繁體書, Libros en Español, Libri Italiani

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