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Precious: Based on the Novel Push

Release date: 21 January 2010
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This is the story of Precious Jones, a sixteen year old illiterate black girl who has never been ... Read More

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This is the story of Precious Jones, a sixteen year old illiterate black girl who has never been out of Harlem. She is pregnant by her own father for the second time, and kicked out of school when that pregnancy becomes obvious. Placed in an alternative teaching programme, she learns to read and write. This is Preciouss diary, in which she honestly records her relationships and her life.

Product Details

Title: Precious: Based on the Novel Push
Author: Sapphire
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE
SKU: BK0022325
EAN: 9780099548720
Number Of Pages: 192
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
Release date: 21 January 2010

About Author

Sapphire the Author has published PUSH, American Dreams, The Kid, and Black Wings & Blind Angels. Push: A novel, won the Book-of-the-Month Club’s Stephen Crane award for First Fiction, the Black Caucus of the American Library Association’s First Novelist Award, and in Great Britain, the Mind Book of the Year Award. Named by the Village Voice and Time Out New York as one of the top ten books of 1996, Push was nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literary Work of Fiction. P A new 25th anniversary edition of the instant classic that inspired the major motion picture and Sundance Film Festival Winner Precious: Based on the Novel ‘PUSH’ by Sapphire, features a new preface by Tayari Jones and a new afterword by Sapphire. Sapphire’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The Black Scholar, Spin, and Bomb. In February of 2007 Arizona State University presented PUSHing Boundaries, PUSHing Art: A Symposium on the Works of Sapphire. Sapphire's poetry has appeared in the following anthologies: Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Grabbed: Poets & Writers on Sexual Assault, Empowerment & Healing, and New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent. Sapphire’s work has been translated into over a dozen languages and has been adapted for stage in the United States and Europe.

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