Push (Paperback)

Vintage Contemporaries Series
by Sapphire
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Item#: 3039513
    Claireece Precious Jones is an overweight, illiterate black teenager pregnant with her second child--both the result of incest by her father--and infected with the AIDS virus--also thanks to her father. This first novel by the poet and performance...
 
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Description:

Claireece Precious Jones is an overweight, illiterate black teenager pregnant with her second child--both the result of incest by her father--and infected with the AIDS virus--also thanks to her father. This first novel by the poet and performance artist Sapphire tells the story of how Precious miraculously finds redemption and deliverance through the efforts of one of her teachers, who teaches her to read and write.

Author:
Sapphire
ISBN:
9780679766759
Format:
Paperback
Publish Date:
05/01/1997
Publisher:
Vintage Books
Language:
English
Portions copyright 2005 Muze Inc. All rights reserved.

 

Customer Reviews

Overall Rating: 4.6

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nursing05 from New Orleans, LA, Nov 4, 2009

This book is very serious and enlightening. It is so real but yet so eye-opening. The only thing is the grammar is on a different level! There is a movie coming out really soon called PRECIOUS, it is based on this book.

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Push

juicyjj from Chicago, IL, Nov 10, 2009

The Book came in great condition.. Awesome Book, Awesome Movie... The Book arrived just in time , so I was able to read it before the movie came out.. Great Great Great

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book review

creed1 from mi, Oct 30, 2009

this book came brand new, I really enjoyed reading it, there is a movie based on it coming out and I wanted to read the book to compare it to the movie. I look forward more to seeing the movie after having read the book, it is a powerful book. the movie that is based on it is Precious! i am excited!

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good

beautiful09 from texas, Oct 30, 2009

Very good read kinda hard to understand the misspelled words but it was a good book.

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Hard to follow initially but an interesting read

sylvia425 from SC, Oct 11, 2009

The book arrived in great condition and I dove into it right away (and finished within the same day since such a small novel). I had a little trouble reading it initially due to the main character's dialect but eventually was able to follow along fine. I have to admit that character's descriptions of abuse were very graphic and extremely disturbing for me; however the verbage was true to the character and was appropriate for the story. I would only recommend this book to someone who is able to tolerate the intense content that deals with child abuse and molestation. I gave a 3 star rating because the content was a bit heavy for me and I had trouble dealing with the jarring images described in the book.

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