The Color Purple: The Temple of My Familiar

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011 - Fiction - 761 pages

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, "The Color Purple "is the moving story of a young woman s endurance of shame and suffering to become whole and to know God. The novel became an instant classic and has been adapted into a film and musical. Paired here with "The Temple of My Familiar," which the author describes as a romance of the last 500,000 years, this edition brings together two works that established Walker as a major voice in modern fiction."

About the author (2011)

Alice Walker won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for her novel The Color Purple. Her other bestselling novels include By the Light of My Father's Smile, Possessing the Secret of Joy, and The Temple of My Familiar. She is also the author of two collections of short stories, three collections of essays, five volumes of poetry, and several children's books. Her books have been translated into more than two dozen languages. Born in Eaton, Georgia, Walker now lives in Northern California.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Color Purple: The Temple of My Familiar
AuthorAlice Walker
Editionreprint
PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011
ISBN0547555636, 9780547555638
Length761 pages
Subjects ›  ›  › 

Fiction / Family Life / General
Fiction / General
Fiction / Literary
Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / United States / African American & Black
  
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