Push : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 0329620754
- ISBN: 9780329620752
- ISBN: 0329444417
- ISBN: 9780329444419
- ISBN: 0679766758
- ISBN: 9780679766759
- ISBN: 0307474844
- ISBN: 9780307474841
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Physical Description:
139, [40] pages ; 21 cm
print - Publisher: New York : Vintage Contemporaries, [2009]
Content descriptions
General Note: | "First Vintage Contemporaries edition, May 1997"--Title page verso. "Now a major motion picture"--Cover. "Includes the novel Push and a reader's guide"--Cover. "Reader's Guide" (p. [38-40], second sequence). |
Summary, etc.: | 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. |
Awards Note: | "Sundance Festival Award Winner"--Cover. |
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Genre: | Bildungsromans. Domestic fiction. Bildungsromans. |
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