Precious (Push Movie Tie-In Edition) by Sapphire

Precious (Push Movie Tie-In Edition) by Sapphire

In an electrifying novel, a black street girl, sixteen years old and pregnant, again, with her father's child, speaks. In a voice that shakes us by its language, its story, and its unflinching honesty, Precious Jones records her journey up from Harlem's lowest depths. For Precious, miraculously, hope appears and the world begins to open up when a courageous black woman - a teacher hellbent to teach - bullies, cajoles, and inspires her to learn to read, to define her own feelings and set them down in a diary: to discover the truth of her life. Day after day they go over the pages, translating the illiterate but developing language of Precious' journals. The learning process itself, as vividly revealed as the most brutal aspects of Precious' daily existence, is the heartbeat of a novel that will disturb, galvanize, and stay in the mind.

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	9780307474841
ISBN 10	0307474844
Title	Precious (Push Movie Tie-In Edition)
Author	Sapphire
Series	Random House Movie Tie-In Books
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2009-10-20
Number of pages	139
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.