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.".
Collection
Call number
F WAL
Genres
Subjects
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)
Publication
London : Women's Press, 1988. c1983
Physical description
245 p.; 20 cm