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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Loved every moment of the story,
By At Your Fingertips "Tam" (Texas) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Color Purple (Paperback)
Honestly, I picked up the book because of the movie and wish I would have read it beforehand. It's an excellent story and filled with a poignancy that strikes at the heart. Cely's growth, from a childhood filled with incest and abuse to a young adult hood filled with spousal abuse and her eventual growth into a strong and determined woman at the hands of a most unlikely of individuals, is brilliantly written.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
incest and liberation,
By an apt word "apples of gold" (Benton City, WA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Color Purple (Paperback)
Described as "intense emotional impact...indelibly affecting" by the NY Times Book Review. I agree. This is a book about incest and its impacts--the opening chapter off-putting for that reason. We travel with a scarred survivor--Celia--from the time the sexual abuse begins for her at 14, until she is liberated probably in her 50s. The book is set up as letters to God from Celie and written in ebonics. Her sister Nettie is a fighter and runs away before she can be abused. Nettie becomes a missionary and writes letters in good English to her sister for 30 years before one is ever received by Celie. She comes into possession of these letters through the intervention of a scarlet woman, Avery Shug. Shug is bisexual, and teaches Celie how to enjoy sex and how to find meaning in her life by sewing pants for everyone. Walker herself says the book "remains her theological work examining the journey from the religious back to the spiritual that I spent much of my adult life, prior to writing it, seeking to avoid."
The name of the book comes from Celie's favorite color, purple. She painted everything in her bedroom purple and red. VERY GOOD BOOK.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Five stars is not enough,
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This review is from: The Color Purple (Paperback)
When reading and done with The Color Purple, you'll know you've become a part of something extraordinarily valuable. Basically, this is the story of Celie's life from her teenage years to her approaching retirement age, with her as the first person teller via her diaries and letters. It chronicles the changes, metamorphoses, of her growth. Once the reader is comfortable with Celie's dialect, the story of Celie and the people around her blossoms. It's very easy to care deeply about Celie. She, Shug, her sister Nellie, Sofia and others are drawn with pinpoint clarity, although it seems to me that with a couple of modest exceptions, the men are not as well drawn, perhaps reflecting Celie's perspectives and telling. The range of emotions is dazzling and the story draws one in thoroughly. The first time I tried to read it, I found the beginning too upsetting to continue, but upon this second, determined reading, I came to regret not getting past that beginning before. Simply said: the Puliter committee was right. If the next step up from great writing is great writing that affects your life, this surely is. Amazing!
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