Push

Sapphire 1950- (author.).

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.

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ISBN: 0307474844
ISBN: 9780307474841
Physical Description: 139, [40] pages ; 21 cm
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Publisher: New York : Vintage Contemporaries, [2009]
Copyright: ©1996

Content descriptions

General Note:	"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" (pages [38-40], second sequence).
Awards Note:	"Sundance Festival Award Winner"--Cover.

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African Americans -- Fiction
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
Teenage mothers -- Fiction
African American girls -- Fiction
Child abuse -- Fiction
Literacy -- Fiction
Incest -- Fiction

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Domestic fiction.
Bildungsromans.

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Location	Call Number / Copy Notes	Barcode	Shelving Location	Circulation Modifier	Holdable?	Status	Due Date	Courses
Interurban Library	PS 3569 A63 P74 2009 (Text)	26040002903868	Main Collection		Volume hold	Available	-
Lansdowne Library	PS 3569 A63 P74 2009 (Text)	26040003319122	Main Collection		Volume hold	Available	-

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