Push

'I'm alive inside. A bird is my heart. Mama and Daddy is not win. I'm winning.'

This is the story of Precious, a sixteen-year-old illiterate Black girl who has never been out of Harlem. Pregnant by her own father for the second time, she is kicked out of school and placed in an alternative teaching programme. Through learning to read and write, Precious begins to find her voice, and fight back.

Push is the unflinching diary of a girl whose strength and kindness shines amidst extraordinary adversity.

Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, featuring bold portraits by female photographers from around the world.

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Sapphire

Zusammenfassung

Through learning to read and write, Precious begins to find her voice, and fight back. Push is the unflinching diary of a girl whose strength and kindness shines amidst extraordinary adversity. Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, featuring bold portraits by female photographers from around the world.

Bericht

An inspired and inspiring debut, a The Color Purple for the nineties Vogue

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Sapphire
• Verlag: Vintage UK
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 14.10.2021
• EAN: 9781784877491
• ISBN: 978-1-78487-749-1
• Seiten: 192
• Abmessung: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Serien: Vintage Classics; Vintage Heroines
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Gegenwartsliteratur (ab 1945); New York, Harlem, FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Women, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / City Life, Narrative theme: Social issues, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Relating to African American people, ‘Street’ fiction