TY - BOOK AU - Walker,Alice TI - The color purple SN - 9780544805026 U1 - 813.54 23 PY - 2015///] CY - Boston, [Mass.] PB - Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt KW - African American women KW - Fiction KW - Adult child sexual abuse victims KW - Abused wives KW - Sisters KW - Southern States KW - Domestic fiction KW - lcgft KW - Epistolary fiction N1 - "First published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970"--Title page verso N2 - Beautifully imagined and deeply compassionate, this is the story of two sisters--one a missionary in Africa and the other an abused child wife living in the South--who sustain their loyalty to and trust in each other across time, distance, and silence. This classic novel of American literature is rich with passion, pain, inspiration, and an indomitable love of life ER -