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Push / a novel by Sapphire.

Precious : (other title)
Precious. (other title)
Sapphire, 1950- (Author).

Summary:

A self-portrait of a black teenage girl, big, fat, unloved, with a father who rapes her and a jealous mother who screams abuse. For Precious, as she is called, hope appears when a courageous teacher, a young black woman, bullies, cajoles and inspires her to learn to read. By the author of American Dreams.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0307474844
  • ISBN: 9780307474841
  • ISBN: 0679446265
  • Physical Description: 139 pages, 40 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Vintage Contemporaries, 2009.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"First Vintage Contemporaries edition, May 1997." -- T.p. verso.
"Includes the novel Push and a reader's guide"--Cover.
"Reader's Guide" (p. [38-40]).
Title on cover : Precious : based on the novel Push.
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 4 5 135071.

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Subject:
African American girls > Fiction.
African Americans > Fiction.
Child abuse > Fiction.
Incest > Fiction.
Literacy > Fiction.
Teenage mothers > Fiction.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction.
Genre:
Coming-of-age fiction
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.

Available copies

  • 8 of 8 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Rutherford County Library System.

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