Book
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- ALMA POWELL: Adult Stacks
- CENTRAL: First Floor Collection
Push : a novel
Call Number
- FICTION SAPP (CEN)
Publication Information
New York : Vintage Contemporaries, [2009]
Physical Description
139, [40] p. ; 21 cm.
Summary
Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible to the father who rapes her and the mother who batters her and to the authorities who dismiss her as just one more of Harlem's casualties. But when Precious, pregnant with a second child by her father, meets a determined and radical teacher, we follow her on a journey of education and enlightenment as she learns not only how to write about her life, but how to make it truly her own for the first time.
Notes
"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" (p. [38-40], second sequence).
Subjects
- African Americans > Fiction.
- Teenage mothers > Fiction.
- African American teenage girls > Fiction.
- Dysfunctional families > Fiction.
- Child abuse > Fiction.
- Literacy > Fiction.
- Incest > Fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Coming of age > Fiction.
- African Americans > New York (State) > New York > Fiction.
- Movie tie-ins.
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction.