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Push : A Novel Cover Image Book Book

Push : A Novel / by Sapphire.

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0679766758 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9780679766759
  • ISBN: 9780307474841 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9780099548720
  • ISBN: 9780679766759 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: 139 p. : ill ; 21 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Vintage, 1997, c1996.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Movie tie-in edition includes the novel Push and a reader's guide.
Movie tie-in edition's cover title: "Precious".
Awards Note:
Winner of the 1997 First Novelist Award from BCALA.

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Genre: Black fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Bildungsromane.
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Psychological fiction.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Gibsons Public Library.

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