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Pocket Books (Mm) (1985), Mass Market Paperback, 295 pages
Description
Tells the story of two sisters: Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a child-wife living in the South, in the medium of their letters to each other and in Celie's case, the desperate letters she begins, "Dear God.".
Media reviews
Walker accomplishes a rare thing: She makes an epistolary novel work without veering into preciousness. Rather, Celie's full-bodied voice emerges, a moody and honest voice, in an inherently intimate literary form.
Without doubt, Alice Walker's latest novel is her most impressive. No mean accomplishment, since her previous books - which, in addition to several collections of poetry and two collections of short stories, include two novels ("The Third Life of Grange Copeland" and "Medridian") - have elicited
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Awards
National Book Award (Finalist — 1983)
Pulitzer Prize (Winner — Fiction — 1983)
Audie Award (Finalist — Best Female Narrator — 2021)
National Book Critics Circle Award (Finalist — Fiction — 1982)
Townsend Prize for Fiction (Winner — Fiction — 1984)
Waterstones Books of the Century (18 — 1997)
Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List (99 — 2009)
Uncovered Classics (1982)
Georgia Top 25 Reading List (2002)
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Physical description
295 p.; 6.7 inches
ISBN
0-15-119153-0 / 9780151191536