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Push : a novel Cover Image Book Book

Push : a novel

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: 9780307474841 (trade pbk.)
  • Physical Description: print
    139, [40] p ; 20 cm.
  • Edition: 1st Vintage contemporaries ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Vintage Contemporaries, p2009.

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General Note:
"Includes the novel Push and a reader's guide"--Cover.
"Reader's Guide" (p. [38-40]).
"First Vintage Contemporaries edition, May 1997." -- T.p. verso.

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Genre: Bildungsromans.
Domestic fiction.
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