Isbn: 9780151191536 - the color purple (20 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Later printing. Format is approximately 5.75 inches by 8.5 inches. 245, [3] pages. DJ is in a plastic sleeve, and has some wear and soiling. Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel The Color Purple. Over the span of her career, Walker has published seventeen novels and short story collections, twelve non-fiction works, and collections of essays and poetry. Walker wrote the poems that would culminate in her first book of poetry, entitled Once, while she was a student in East Africa and during her senior year at college. Walker would slip her poetry under the office door of Muriel Rukeyser, when she was a student at Sarah Lawrence. Rukeyser then showed the poems to her literary agent. Once was published four years later by Harcourt. In 1982, she published what has become her best-known work, The Color Purple. The novel follows a young, troubled black woman fighting her way through not just racist white culture but patriarchal black culture as well. The book became a bestseller and was adapted into a critically acclaimed 1985 movie directed by Steven Spielberg, featuring Oprah Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg. Walker's spirituality has influenced some of her most well-known novels, including The Color Purple. She has written of her interest in Transcendental Meditation. Walker's exploration of religion in much of her writing draws on a literary tradition that includes writers like Zora Neale Hurston. Derived from a Kirkus review: Walker has set herself the task of an epistolary novelâ"and she scores strongly with it. The time is in the Thirties; a young, black, Southern woman named Celie is the primary correspondent (God being her usual addressee); and the life described in her letters is one of almost impossible grimness. While young, Celie is raped by a stepfather. (Even worse, she believes him to be her real father.) She's made to bear two children that are then taken away from her. She's married off without her consent to an older man, Albert, who'd rather have Celie's sister Nettieâ"and, by sacrificing her body to Albert without love or feeling, Celie saves her sister, making it possible for her to escape: soon Nettle goes to Africa to work as a Christian missionary. Eventually, then, halfway through the book, as Celie's sub-literate dialect letters to God continue to mount (eventually achieving the naturalness and intensity of music), letters from Nettie in Africa begin to arrive. But Celie doesn't see themâ"because Albert holds them back from her. And it's only when Celie finds an unlikely redeemerâ"Albert's blues-singer lover Shug Averyâ"that her isolation ends: Shug takes Celie under her wing, becomes Celie's lover as well as Albert's; Shug's strength and expansiveness and wisdom finally free up Nettie's lettersâ"thus granting poor Celie a tangible life in the now as well as a family life, a past (Nettie's letters). Walker fashions this book beautifullyâ"with each of Celie's letters slowly adding to her independence (the implicit feminism won't surprise Walker's readers), with each letter deepening the rich, almost folk-tale-ish sense of story here. And, like an inverted pyramid, the novel thus builds itself up broadeningly while balanced on the frailest imaginable single point: the indestructibilityâ"and battered-nessâ"of love. A lovely, painful book: Walker's finest work yet. L. A. Hyder (Author photograph) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Size: 8.5"x 5.75", 245 pages. Cream boards with purple cloth on spine, silver lettering. Dust Jacket price of $11.95, copy write page starts CDE.

Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982. Later Printing. Octavo (22cm); 245 pp. Publisher's binding in unclipped pictorial dust jacket with $11.95 price present. Original price stamped on front free endpaper. Pages otherwise clean and unmarked. Dust jacket clean and bright with minor edge wear; scuff on back panel but text is unaffected. Cloth on spine toned; some light scuff marks to front board. Binding sound. Overall a Very Good copy in like jacket. Signed without inscription by Alice Walker on title page in green ink. Signed.…

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 245 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good condition first state dust jacket. Spine is stone with lavender, violet, and black lettering. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering, price uncut: "$11.95" on front flap, has mild shelving wear along spine tail and faint scuff marks along front cover. Boards have mild shelving wear along extremities, mild age-toning along head and tail edges, and moderate creasing along and cocking to spine. Text block edges and interior endpapers have mild foxing. Signed flat by Alice Walker on title page. DL Consignment. Shelved Case 7. Alice Walker was born in 1944 to sharecropping parents in rural, racially segregated Georgia. The hardship she experienced in her youth, including an ocular injury that would leave her permanently blind in one eye, pushed Walker towards reading and writing. She was awarded a full scholarship to Spelman college, where she stayed in Georgia after being named valedictorian of her high school class, though later was offered a scholarship and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in New York. Pursuing higher education connected Walker with many of the literary icons who would mentor and support her writing, such as Howard Zinn and Muriel Rukeyser; the latter helped published Walker's first collection of poetry in 1968, after showing her literary agent the poems Walker slipped beneath Rukeyser's door as her student at Sarah Lawrence. In 1967, Walker married a white Jewish man and moved back to the South, this time to Mississippi (a move that she credits having been inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, whom she met at Spelman) where the couple represented the first legally married interracial couple following the state's introduction of miscegenation laws. Walker authored two novels throughout the 70s, but achieved an even more remarkable first in 1983 when she became the first African American woman awarded a Pulitzer Prize in fiction (Nikki Giovanni had won in 1950 for poetry) for her third novel, 1982's THE COLOR PURPLE. The novel was also awarded the National Book Award, making Walker one of the rare authors to be awarded two major accolades for the same work. THE COLOR PURPLE remains the subject of many bans and censorship arguments for its honest portrayal of navigating violence as a Black woman caught between racist white and patriarchal Black worlds. Due to its highly sought after nature signed first editions of THE COLOR PURPLE, especially signed to the page as it is here, are scarce. This particular copy was most likely signed more closely to the publication of the novel and is one of the few in existence with a nearly pristine, first state dust jacket. 1397040. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.…

Hardcover. dj. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 245 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good minus condition dust jacket. White spine with purple lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price uncut "$11.95", has tears along the rear head edge, small stains on the rear cover, small water stain along the front tail edge, small indents along the front cover, creasing along the fore and tail edges, and mild rubbing wear along the spine head/tail. Boards have mild bending wear along the spine head/tail and fore corners, small dents along the rear cover, and mild wear along the edges. Textblock has small dents along pages 201-212, a light smudge along the fore edge on page 218, mild foxing along the pastedown pages and end-pages, and stains on pages 46-47, the rear end-page, and edges. DL consignment. Shelved in Case 7. . 1394005. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.…