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Author:

Sapphire, 1950-

Title:

Push : a novel / by Sapphire.

Publisher:

Vintage Contemporaries,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

139, [40] p. ; 21 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.

Notes:

"First Vintage Contemporaries edition, May 1997." -- T.p. verso. "Now a major motion picture"--Cover. "Includes the novel Push and a reader's guide"--Cover. "Reader's Guide" (p. [38-40], second sequence).

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:

0679766758 (pbk.)
9780679766759 (pbk.) :
0307474844
9780307474841

OCLC:

(OCoLC)368022334

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