THE COLOR PURPLE

(London): The Women's Press, 1986. First edition. Near fine in very good plus jacket.. First UK edition of Alice Walker's breakaway success, a book centered around the experience of African-American women in the rural South. THE COLOR PURPLE is an epistolary novel about an African-American family in Georgia, following the fate of two sisters through their letters to each other. The book is particularly famous for the beauty of its language, which Walker shapes with astonishing perfection. Walker notably appreciated the design for the first edition dust jacket, remarking that the house "looks almost exactly like the church I attended as a child." A controversial winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the book remains a frequent target of censorship, despite its predominant themes of love and resilience. An American classic. 8.25 x 5.25''. Original black paper boards, silver-lettered spine. In original price-clipped, white pictorial jacket. [6], 250 pages. Gift inscription inked in blue on front pastedown. Jacket with light edgewear and rubbing. Book with minor bumping at top edge of boards, faint foxing to textblock top edge, else tight and clean.