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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100679766758

ISBN-139780679766759

eBay Product ID (ePID)1027506

Product Key Features

Book TitlePush : a Novel

Number of Pages192 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1997

TopicAfrican American / Contemporary Women, Family Life, African American / General, Coming of Age, African American / Urban

GenreFiction

AuthorSapphire

Book SeriesVintage Contemporaries Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight6.2 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition20

Dewey Decimal813.5/4

Synopsis"Push: Based on the Novel by Sapphire," directed by Lee Daniels and written by Damien Paul GRAND JURY PRIZE and AUDIENCE AWARD winner at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival Relentless, remorseless, and inspirational, this "horrific, hope-filled story" (Newsday) is certain to haunt a generation of readers. Precious Jones, 16 years old and pregnant by her father with her second child, meets a determined and highly radical teacher who takes her on a journey of transformation and redemption., The acclaimed book that inspired Precious , the Sundance Film Festival winner from Lee Daniels "Even though the film Precious packs quite a wallop, the gritty realism of the novel upon which the movie is based is even more intense." -- NPR Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible to the father who rapes her and the mother who batters her and to the authorities who dismiss her as just one more of Harlem's casualties. But when Precious, pregnant with a second child by her father, meets a determined and radical teacher, we follow her on a journey of education and enlightenment as she learns not only how to write about her life, but how to make it truly her own for the first time., The acclaimed book that inspired Precious , the Sundance Film Festival winner from Lee Daniels Even though the film Precious packs quite a wallop, the gritty realism of the novel upon which the movie is based is even more intense. -- NPR Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible to the father who rapes her and the mother who batters her and to the authorities who dismiss her as just one more of Harlem's casualties. But when Precious, pregnant with a second child by her father, meets a determined and radical teacher, we follow her on a journey of education and enlightenment as she learns not only how to write about her life, but how to make it truly her own for the first time.