Format:
Book
Title:
Push / Sapphire.
Author:
Sapphire, 1950-
Call Number:
FIC SAPPHIRE
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1996.
Description:
139, [38] p. ; 20 cm.
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. "In an electrifying novel, a black street girl, sixteen years old and pregnant, again, with her father's child, speaks."--BOOK JACKET. "In a voice that shakes us by its language, its story, and its unflinching honesty, Precious Jones records her journey up from Harlem's lowest depths..."--BOOK JACKET. "For Precious, miraculously, hope appears and the world begins to open up when a courageous black woman - a teacher hellbent to teach - bullies, cajoles, and inspires her to learn to read, to define her own feelings and set them down in a diary: to discover the truth of her life."--BOOK JACKET. "Day after day they go over the pages, translating the illiterate but developing language of Precious' journals. The learning process itself, as vividly revealed as the most brutal aspects of Precious' daily existence, is the heartbeat of a novel that will disturb, galvanize, and stay in the mind."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects:
Child abuse -- Fiction.
Incest -- Fiction.
Teenage mothers -- Fiction.
Literacy -- Fiction.
African American girls -- Fiction.
African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Genre:
Domestic fiction.
Other Title:
Also known as : Precious
ISBN:
0679446265
9780679766759