Push a novel
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. By the author of American D...
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New York :
Vintage Contemporaries,
[2009]
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| 100 | 0 | |a Sapphire, |d 1950- | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Push : |b a novel / |c by Sapphire. |
| 246 | 1 | |a Precious : |b based on the novel Push | |
| 260 | |a New York : |b Vintage Contemporaries, |c [2009] | ||
| 300 | |a 139, [40] p. ; |c 21 cm. | ||
| 500 | |a "First Vintage Contemporaries edition, May 1997." -- T.p. verso. | ||
| 500 | |a "Now a major motion picture"--Cover. | ||
| 586 | |a "Sundance Festival Award Winner"--Cover. | ||
| 520 | |a 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. By the author of American Dreams. | ||
| 500 | |a "Includes the novel Push and a reader's guide"--Cover. | ||
| 500 | |a "Reader's Guide" (p. [38-40], second sequence). | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a African Americans |v Fiction. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Harlem (New York, N.Y.) |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Teenage mothers |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a African American girls |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Child abuse |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Literacy |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Incest |v Fiction. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Coming-of-age fiction. |2 lcgft | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Domestic fiction. |2 lcgft | |
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