Tells the story of two African-American 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.".
year: 1982, 1983, 1985, 1992
call number/section: 1000
subjects: african american women, fiction, sisters, fiction, marriage, adult child sexual abuse victims, abused wives, southern states, fiction, domestic fiction, epistolary fiction, bildungsromans, fiction
Editions
Walker, Alice
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1982)
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.".
Schools: 10
Walker, Alice
Washington Square Press (1983)
Schools: 0
Walker, Alice
Pocket Books (1985)
Schools: 1
Walker, Alice
Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (1992)
Tells the story of two African-American 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.".
Schools: 1
Walker, Alice
"Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance, and silence."--Page 4 of cover.
Schools: 5