The Color Purple / The Temple of My Familiar - Hardcover

Walker, Alice

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0547555636 ISBN 13: 9780547555638

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011

Synopsis

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, The Color Purple is the moving story of a young woman’s endurance of shame and suffering to become whole and to know God. The novel became an instant classic and has been adapted into a film and musical. Paired here withThe Temple of My Familiar, which the author describes as “a romance of the last 500,000 years,” this edition brings together two works that established Walker as a major voice in modern fiction.

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From the Back Cover

“Alice Walker has written beautifully about dreams, the power of stories—and about the remarkable strength of our own histories.” —Washington Post Book World

 

The Color Purple established Alice walker as a major voice in modern fiction, winning the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. It is the story of two sisters—one a missionary in Africa and the other a child wife living in the South—who sustain their loyalty to and trust in one another across time, distance and silence. In The Temple of My Familiar, a visionary cast of characters weaves together past and present in a brilliantly intricate tapestry of tales, described by the author as “a romance of the last 500,000 years.” The resulting fabric tells the story of the dispossessed and displaced, of peoples whose history is ancient and whose future is yet to come.

 

Best-selling novelist ALICE WALKER is the author of five other novels, five collections of short stories, six collections of essays, seven volumes of poetry, and several children’s books. Her books have been translated into more than two dozen languages.

Edition details

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0547555636
• ISBN 13: 9780547555638
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 761