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Author:

Sapphire, 1950-

Title:

Push : a novel / by Sapphire.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Distributed by Random House,

Copyright Date:

1996

Description:

141 p. ; 20 cm.

Subject:

African Americans--Fiction.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
Teenage mothers--Fiction.
African American girls--Fiction.
Child abuse--Fiction.
Literacy--Fiction.
Incest--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Bildungsromane.
Bildungsromans.

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. By the author of American Dreams.

ISBN:

9780679446262
0679446265

OCLC:

(OCoLC)34557216

LCCN:

96016516

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