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The Color Purple
Alice Walker · 2004
Best price $3.96 new at eBay · ebook $8.99 · audio $16.99
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The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction.
The novel has been the frequent target of censors and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000–2009 at number seventeenth because of the sometimes explicit content, particularly in terms of violence. In 2003, the book was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novels."
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4.2 of 5 · 92 ratings
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Book details
- Author
- Alice Walker
- Publisher
- Harcourt
- Published
- 2004
- Pages
- 294
- Format
- Mass Market Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN-13
- 9780156031820
- ISBN-10
- 0156031825
- Categories
- Fiction
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The Color Purple price history
Across formats since Nov 4, 2026, recorded prices range from $3.96 to $16.99 over 12 days checked. The current lowest item price, $3.96, matches the 30-day low of $3.96.
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