American Dreams by Sapphire
In the tradition of Alice Walker, this electrifying new African American voice delivers the verdict on the urban condition in a sensual, propulsive, and prophetic book of poetry and prose.Whether she is writing about an enraged teenager gone "wilding" in Central Park, fifteen-year-old Latasha Harlins gunned down by a Korean grocer, or a brutalized child who grows up to escape her probable fate through the miracle of art, Sapphire's vision in this collection of poetry and prose is unswervingly honest.
"Stunning . . . . One of the strongest debut collections of the '90s."--Publishers Weekly
Sapphire is the author of American Dreams, a collection of poetry that was named one of the best debut collections of the 1990s by Publishers Weekly. Her novel, Push, won the Stephen Crane Prize for First Fiction from the Book-of-the-Month Club, the First Novelist Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, and the Mind Book of the Year Award in the United Kingdom. The Village Voice and Time Out New York chose Push as one of the best ten books of 1996. In the category of Outstanding Literary Work of Fiction, Push was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Putting her soul on the line in each stanza, Sapphire's latest collection, Black Wings & Blind Angels, preserves Sapphire's explosive power to win hearts and single minds, according to Poets and Writers Magazine.
The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The Black Scholar, Spin, and Bomb have all published Sapphire's work. PUSHing Boundaries, PUSHing Art: A Symposium on the Works of Sapphire was held at Arizona State University in February 2007. Sapphire's work has been adapted for theatre in the United States and Europe and has been translated into eleven languages. In the United States, Precious, the cinematic adaptation of her novel, just received the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Awards.
Sundance Film Festival (2009) held a dramatic competition.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780679767992 |
| ISBN 10 | 0679767991 |
| Title | American Dreams |
| Author | Sapphire |
| Series | Vintage Contemporaries |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 1996-06-18 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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