DIFFERENT COVER!!

From the front cover:

'The Wondrous Pulitzer Prize Winning Novel -
Now a Major Motion Picture'

From the back cover:

'''Intense Emotional Impact ... Indelibly Affecting ... A Lavishly Gifted Writer'
-The New York Times Book Review

Life wasn't easy for Celie. But she knew how to survive, needing little to get by.

Then her husband's lover, a flamboyant blues singer, barreled into her world and gave Celie the courage to ask for more - to laugh, to play, and finally - to love.

The Color Purple

'Places Walker in the company of Faulkner' -The Nation

'Superb ... a work to stand beside literature of any time and place' -San Francisco Chronicle

WINNER OF
* The Pulitzer Prize
* The American Book Award for Fiction'

This is a paperback copy from Pocket Books, published in 1985, umpteenth reprint. The book was originally published in 1982. This is a movie tie-in edition. I'll take a picture.

This book is #272 on the list of 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. Anyone who enjoys the book should make sure to see the movie version as well, it's magnificent.

I haven't read this copy, but I have read the book. It's one of the most original books I have ever read. It's written in this broad and, let's say unrefined Southern dialect. As the story progresses and the narrator grows up and goes through a rather drastic personal development the language and vocabulary also changes. Incredibly originally done.

'The Color Purple' is a story of female life in the American South in the first half of the twentieth century. The main character and narrator, Celie, is fourteen when the book opens. She is the neglected and abused child of poor and ignorant parents. As a colored girl she is on the absolute bottom rung of society's ladder - not only black, not only female, not only poor, but not even grown enough to stand up for herself. It takes her a long time to become mature enough to do this, and she has to go through a lot of painful experiences. It's a quite painful book to read, but it's also full of hope and faith in the good in human beings. Celie is raised a Christian, in a rather primitive faith. Other people in her life have a far more sophisticated understanding of Christianity. But in the end, Celie may be the one with the truest insight into the core of the Christian faith. Personally I am not at all religious, quite the contrary, but in cases like this even I can see the value of religion as a support and a guide. Celie has so little, and she expects nothing. But sometimes the meek really do inherit the earth.

I bought this book at a flea market at Eiksmarka elementary school in Bærum outside of Oslo on Saturday, September 22nd, 2007.

Reserved for release at the BookCrossing convention here in Oslo later this month as one of the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die.

Convention release!

Caught it during Bookcrossing Convention in Oslo 2017 :)

Really liked the book. Left it in the bookshelf