One of the greatest works of modern fiction, Alice Walker’s Pulitzer
Prize-winning The Color Purple is presented in a beautifully crafted
new edition from The Folio Society. This much-anticipated edition celebrates the cultural significance of Walker’s
incredible novel and includes a preface by the author.
Lela Harris’s achingly beautiful illustrations, newly commissioned by Folio,
depict the key characters in Walker’s novel. Each black-and-white charcoal
drawing includes a flash of purple in homage to the book title, with Harris
catching her subjects off-guard or in pensive moods as they bare their souls
while their stories are told. The portraits make this the only illustrated
edition in print and were personally approved by Alice Walker, who
described them as having ‘soul and expertise’.
The Color Purple is one of the great novels of the 20th century, exploring
the extremes of human nature through the eyes of a young Africa n
American woman in 1930s Georgia. The Color
Purple is an important and beautifully imagined novel that will deeply
affect and enrich everyone who reads it.
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