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Push (Revised)

By Sapphire

By Sapphire

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Part of Vintage Contemporaries

Category: Fiction

Paperback $15.95

Jun 22, 2021 | ISBN 9780593314609

Push (Revised) by Sapphire
Paperback $15.95
Jun 22, 2021 | ISBN 9780593314609

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About Push (Revised)

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.

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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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

Paperback | $15.95
Published by Vintage
Jun 22, 2021 | 240 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780593314609
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Praise

“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

Awards

New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age WINNER

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