Push (Vintage Contemporaries) - Softcover

Sapphire

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679766758 ISBN 13: 9780679766759

Publisher: Vintage Books, 1997

Synopsis

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An electrifying first novel that shocks by its language, its circumstances, and its brutal honesty, Push recounts a young black street-girl's horrendous and redemptive journey through a Harlem inferno. For Precious Jones, 16 and pregnant with her father's child, miraculous hope appears and the world begins to open up for her when a courageous, determined teacher bullies, cajoles, and inspires her to learn to read, to define her own feelings and set them down in a diary.

About this title

Review:

"An inspired and inspiring debut, a The Color Purple for the nineties" (Vogue)

"Sapphire's vibrant, unindulgent first novel has you cheering the awesome Precious on until the last page: her voice is true and the book is cool" (Mail on Sunday)

"A harrowing but ultimately uplifting book which stays in the mind long after the final page" (Daily Telegraph)

"A powerful cri de coeur, part wishful prayer, part manifesto, mingling poetry and humour...her novel, while heavily weighted with adversity, is buoyant, cresting wave after voluble wave of splendid, turbulent, bracing language...its voice demands attention, perseverance and concentration, then its music takes you over, its story grips, its current and undercurrents mesmerise, depress and then uplift... A voice to remember" (Scotland on Sunday)

"Harrowing yet hilarious...packs a powerful punch... The powerful writing makes the book a cracking read... A tour de force" (Guardian)

Book Description:

The harrowing but uplifting story of an abused teenager in Harlem, adapted into the 2010 Oscar-winning film, Precious

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Books
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0679766758
• ISBN 13: 9780679766759
• Binding: Paperback