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Push - Softcover

Sapphire

 
9780749395049: Push
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0749395044 ISBN 13: 9780749395049
Verlag: Vintage, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

This is the story of Precious Jones, a sixteen-year-old illiterate black girl who has never been out of Harlem. She is pregnant by her own father for the second time, and kicked out of school when that pregnancy becomes obvious. Placed in an alternative teaching programme, she learns to read and write. This is Precious's diary, in which she honestly records her relationships and life.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Sapphire is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel The Kid. She is also the author two books of poetry, American Dreams and Black Wings & Blind Angels. Her novel Push spent thirteen weeks in the number one position on the New York Times Bestseller List and was nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literary Fiction. In 2009 Push was made into the Academy Award winning movie 'Precious' described by Rolling Stone Magazine as the Best Picture of 2009.


Sapphire's poetry and prose has been published in numerous journals and magazines including The New Yorker, Black Scholar, PN Review, Spin, and BOMB. Sapphire's work has been translated into fourteen languages and adapted for stage in North America, Europe and Africa.


Sapphire lives in New York City where she is working on a new novel and a selected volume of her poetry.

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Verlag
Vintage
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0749395044
ISBN 13 
9780749395049
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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