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3 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.

4 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." 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.

5 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.

6 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.

7 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. I am I have always been a good girl.

8 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.

9 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.

10 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.