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Push

By Sapphire

By Sapphire

By Sapphire
Read by Bahni Turpin

By Sapphire
Read by Bahni Turpin

By Sapphire
Read by Sapphire

By Sapphire
Read by Sapphire

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Category: Fiction

Category: Fiction | Audiobooks

Category: Fiction | Audiobooks

Ebook $11.99

Jun 22, 2021 | ISBN 9780593466759

Audiobook Download $17.50

Oct 20, 2009 | 305 Minutes

Audiobook Download $9.00

Jun 03, 2008 | 172 Minutes

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    About Push

    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 by Sapphire, whose power and ferocity influenced a generation of writers.

    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.

    About Push

    An electrifying first novel that shocks by its language, its circumstances, and its brutal honesty, Push recounts a young black street-girl’s horrendous and redemptive journey through a Harlem inferno. For Precious Jones, 16 and pregnant with her father’s child, miraculous hope appears and the world begins to open up for her when a courageous, determined teacher bullies, cajoles, and inspires her to learn to read, to define her own feelings and set them down in a diary.

    About Push

    An electrifying first novel that shocks by its language, its circumstances, and its brutal honesty, Push recounts a young black street-girl’s horrendous and redemptive journey through a Harlem inferno. For Precious Jones, 16 and pregnant with her father’s child, miraculous hope appears and the world begins to open up for her when a courageous, determined teacher bullies, cajoles, and inspires her to learn to read, to define her own feelings and set them down in a diary.

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    The Kid
    Black Wings & Blind Angels
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    Also by Sapphire

    Push (Revised)
    The Kid
    Black Wings & Blind Angels
    American Dreams
    See all books by Sapphire

    About Sapphire

    Sapphire is the author of American Dreams, a collection of poetry that was cited by Publishers Weekly as “one of the strongest debut collections of the nineties.” Push, her novel, won the Book-of-the-Month Club’s Stephen Crane award for First Fiction, the Black Caucus of… More about Sapphire

    About Sapphire

    Sapphire is the author of American Dreams, a collection of poetry that was cited by Publishers Weekly as “one of the strongest debut collections of the nineties.” Push, her novel, won the Book-of-the-Month Club’s Stephen Crane award for First Fiction, the Black Caucus of… More about Sapphire

    About Sapphire

    Sapphire is the author of American Dreams, a collection of poetry that was cited by Publishers Weekly as “one of the strongest debut collections of the nineties.” Push, her novel, won the Book-of-the-Month Club’s Stephen Crane award for First Fiction, the Black Caucus of… More about Sapphire

    Product Details

    Category: Fiction

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Vintage
    Jun 22, 2021 | 224 Pages | ISBN 9780593466759

    Category: Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $17.50
    Published by Random House Audio
    Oct 20, 2009 | 305 Minutes | ISBN 9781415967188

    Category: Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $9.00
    Published by Random House Audio
    Jun 03, 2008 | 172 Minutes | ISBN 9780739376225

    Awards

    New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age WINNER

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