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The Color Purple | Celie, You a Tree
In the following review, Smith praises Walker for the pungency and tenderness of The Color Purple as well as for its strong characterizations.
As admirers of The Third Life of Grange Copeland and Meridian already know, to read an Alice Walker novel is to enter the country of surprise. It is to be admitted to the world of rural black women, a world long neglected by most whites, perhaps out of ignorance, perhaps out of willed indifference. The loss is ours, for the lives of these women are so extraordinary in their tragedy, their culture, their humor and their courage that we are immediately gripped by them.
Witness the opening passage of The Color Purple, a tale of violence, incest and...
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