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Push (Revised)

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A new 25th anniversary edition of the instant classic that inspired the major motion picture and Sundance Film Festival winner Precious: Based on the Novel 'PUSH' by Sapphire, whose power and ferocity influenced a generation of writers.

Affecting and impassioned . . . sails on the strength of pure, stirring feeling. The New York Times Book Review


Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible to the father who rapes her and the mother who batters her and to the authorities who dismiss her as just one more of Harlem's casualties. But when Precious, pregnant with a second child by her father, meets a determined and radical teacher, we follow her on a journey of education and enlightenment as she learns not only how to write about her life, but how to make it truly her own for the first time.

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Sapphire

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A new 25th anniversary edition of the instant classic that inspired the major motion picture and Sundance Film Festival winner Precious: Based on the Novel 'PUSH' by Sapphire, whose power and ferocity influenced a generation of writers.

“Affecting and impassioned . . . sails on the strength of pure, stirring feeling.”—The New York Times Book Review


Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible to the father who rapes her and the mother who batters her and to the authorities who dismiss her as just one more of Harlem's casualties. But when Precious, pregnant with a second child by her father, meets a determined and radical teacher, we follow her on a journey of education and enlightenment as she learns not only how to write about her life, but how to make it truly her own for the first time.

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“Affecting and impassioned . . . sails on the strength of pure, stirring feeling.”
The New York Times Book Review

“A horrific, hope-filled story [that is] brilliant, blunt, merciless.”
Newsday
 
“Brutal, redemptive . . . you just can’t take your eyes off Precious Jones.”
Newsweek

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Affecting and impassioned . . . sails on the strength of pure, stirring feeling.
The New York Times Book Review

A horrific, hope-filled story [that is] brilliant, blunt, merciless.
Newsday
 
Brutal, redemptive . . . you just can t take your eyes off Precious Jones.
Newsweek

Product details

Authors Sapphire
Publisher Vintage USA
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 22.06.2021
 
EAN 9780593314609
ISBN 978-0-593-31460-9
No. of pages 240
Dimensions 131 mm x 203 mm x 17 mm
Series Vintage Contemporaries
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature
Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945)

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