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2 Nreated by httempt to wenty yeare guiding ligwith herselr s prodigioy classic ofrare photoan n Not her rs ght f ous f os AjaytaoReview "The Color Purple has been read and reread by millions. Forget lilac, mauve and lavendar: this is the royal purple." The Times From the Back Cover [Banner] Now a Tony Award-Winning Broadway Musical The Color Purple is the story of two sisters one a missionary to Africa and the other a child wife living in the South who remain loyal to one another across time, distance, and silence. Beautifully imagined and deeply compassionate, this classic of American literature is rich with passion, pain, inspiration, and an indomitable love of life. "Intense emotional impact .. Indelibly affecting .. Alice Walker is a lavishly gifted writer." *The New York Times Book Review "Places Walker in the company of Faulkner." The Nation "Superb .. A work to stand beside literature of any time and place." San FranciscoChronicle "The Color Purple is an American novel of permanent importance.

3 " Newsweek "Marvelous characters .. A story of revelation .. One of the great books of our time."--Essence* [banner] Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award [bio] Bestselling novelist Alice Walker is also the author of three collections of short stories, three collections of essays, six volumes of poetry and several children's books. Her books have been translated into more than two dozen languages. Born in Eatonton, Georgia, Walker now lives in northern California. STEVIEWONDERP refaceWHATEVERELSETheColorPurplehasbeent akenforduringtheyearssinceitspublication ,itremainsformethetheologicalwork examiningthe journey from the religiousback to the spiritual that I spent much of my adult life, prior to writing it,seeking to avoid. Having recognizedmyself as a worshiperof Nature by the age of eleven, becausemy spirit resolutelywanderedoutthewindowtofindtree sandwindduringSundaysermons,Isawnoreason why,oncefree, would have thought that a book that begins Dear God would immediatelyhave been identifiedas a book about thedesire to encounter,to hear from, the it is a sign of our times that this was infrequentlythecase.

4 Or perhapsit is the pagan transformationof God from patriarchalmale supremacistinto trees, stars, wind, andeverythingelse,thatcamouflagedformany readersthebook sintent:toexplorethedifficultpathofsomeo newhostartsout in life already a spiritualcaptive, but who, through her own courageand the help of others, breaks free into therealizationthatshe,likeNatureitself, it is true that it is what we run from that chases us, thenThe Color Purple(this color that is always a surprise but iseverywhereinnature) sword coming from any Sunday sermon or through any human mouth, there I heard and saw it moving in beauty one is exempt from the possibilityof a consciousconnectionto All That Is. Not the poor. Not the thewriter sitting in the open field. This is the book in which I was able to express a new spiritual awareness,a rebirth intostrong feelings of OnenessI realized I had experiencedand taken for granted as a child; a chance for me as well as themain character,Celie, to encounterThat Which Is Beyond UnderstandingBut Not Beyond Loving and to say: I see andhearyouclearly,GreatMystery,nowthatIe xpecttoseeandhearyoueverywhereIam, ,I am fourteenyears old.

5 I am I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what spring after little Lucious come I heard them fussing. He was pulling on her arm. She say It too soon, Fonso, I ain twell. Finally heleave heralone. Aweek goby,hepulling onherarmagain. ShesayNaw, Iain t gonna. Can t youseeI malreadyhalfdead, went to visit her sister doctor over Macon. Left me to see after the others. He never had a kine word to say to say You gonna do what your mammywouldn he put his thing up gainst my hip and sort of wiggle it , , I don t never git used to it. And now I feels sick every time I be the one to cook. My mama she fussat me anlook , ,My mama dead. She die screamingand cussing. She scream at me. She cuss at me. I m big. I can t move fast enough. BytimeIgitbackfromthewell, for school it be dinner time. He don t say set there by the bed holding her hand an cryin, talking boutdon tleaveme,don then my stomachstart moving and then that little baby come out my pussy chewingon it fist you could have , ,Heactlikehecan , I don t think he kilt it.

6 I think he sold it to a man an his wife over got breasts full of milk running tyoulookdecent? msposedtoputon?Idon keep hoping he fine somebodyto marry. I see him looking at my little sister. She scared. But I say I ll take care of ,He come home with a girl from round Gray. She be my age but they be on her all the time. She walk roundlikeshedon little sister Nettie is got a boyfriendin the same shape almost as Pa. His wife died. She was kilt by her boyfriendcoming home from church. He got only three children though. He seen Nettie in church and now every Sunday ,He beat me today cause he say I winked at a boy in church. I may have got somethinin my eye but I didn t wink. I don ,tho,causeI , ,Nettie, , , ,Mr. _____ finally come right out an ast for Nettie hand in He won t let her go. He say she too young, his billfold to show Pa an it fell out an slid under the table. Shug Avery was a woman.

7 The most beautifulwoman Iever saw. She more pretty then my mama. She bout ten thousandtimes more prettier then me. I see her there in , , , ,feathers, , , ,WellSir, ,Naw,Can ,Well,youknow, ,Hesay,realslow,Ican , tfreshtho, , , ugly. He say. But she ain t no strangerto hard work. And she clean. And God done fixed her. You can do everythingjustlikeyouwanttoandsheain , is, he say, I got to git rid of her. She too old to be living here at home. And she a bad influenceon my other tneverreallylookatthatone, , tsmarteither,andI lljustbefair,youhavetowatchherorshe , ,It took him the whole spring, from March to June, to make up his mind to take me. All I thought about was Nettie. sschoolbooksprettyhard, mnotasprettyorassmartasNettie,butshesayI ain ,Nettiesay, about Columbusin first grade, but look like he the first thing I forgot. She say Columbuscome here in boats call theNeater,thePeter, , ,Nettiesay,crying, , how come she have to teach school.

8 He never look up from cleaninghis gun. Pretty soon a bunch of white Nettie never give up. Next thing I know Miss Beasley at our house trying to talk to Pa. She say long as she been ateacher she never know nobody want to learn badasNettie andme. But when Pacall me out andshe see how tight mydressis, badsometimeNettie done passme inlearnin. But look like nothing shesaycangit inmy brain andstay. She try ,Yeah, , , ,hewon tbite, ,butnottooclosecauseI , turn round. One of my little brotherscome up. I think it was fat and playful, all the time ,Whatyoudoingthatfor?Pasay, , ,Pasay,rattling emeverythingtheyastfor, ,Thatcowstillcoming?Hesay, ,I spend my weddingday running from the oldest boy. He twelve. His mama died in his arms and he don t want to Don tdothat! But that s all he say. He got four children,instead of three, two boys and two girls. The girls hair ain tbeen comb since their mammydied. I tell him I ll just have to shave it off.

9 Start fresh. He say bad luck to cut a theyhaveaspring,notawell,andawoodstovelo oklikeatruck I start trying tountanglehair. They only sixandeight andthey cry. They scream. They cuse meofmurder. By teno clock I m done. They cry theirselvesto sleep. But I don t cry. I lay there thinkingbout Nettie while he on top of me, ,I was in town sitting on the wagon while Mr. _____ was in the dry good store. I seen my baby girl. I knowed it was girlshelookupandsortoffrown. ,sheseen, , of all her daidies. I embrodylot of little stars and flowers too. He took the daidies when he took her. She was ,likesheain ,Isay, , , _____, she say, then turn her face to the clerk. He say, Girl you want that cloth or not? We got , , , , say, You can t sew thout thread. He pick up a spool and hold it gainst the cloth. That look like it bout the right , , t? ___, , , , ,Surenuff?Likesheknow all about him. Just didn t know he was a fine looking man, she say.

10 Not a finer looking one in , , , , , ,realeasy,Whatyoucallher?Shesay,oh, thername? , just look at her, she say sort of impish, turning to look at the child, don t she look like a Olivia to you? Look at hereyes, for god s sake. Somebodyole would have eyes like that. So I call heroleLivia. She Olivia, she say,patting the child hair. Well, here come the ReverendMr. _____, she say. I see a wagon and a great big man in , , , ,Nettie here with us. She run way from home. She say she hate to leave our stepma, but she had to git out, maybe , , best. She be sitting there with me shelling peas or helping the childrenwith they me , ,shestudy,shepracticeherhandwriting, , , , tletthemrunoveryou, , , sarealprettydressyougoton, , , she smile a little. Then she frown. Then she don t look no special way at all. She just stick close to me. She tell me,Your skin. Your hair, Your teefs. He try to give her a compliment,she pass it on to me.