| Description |
139, [40] p. ; 21 cm. |
| Note |
Title on cover : Precious : based on the novel Push |
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"First Vintage Contemporaries edition, May 1997." -- T.p. verso. |
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"Now a major motion picture"--Cover. |
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"Includes the novel Push and a reader's guide"--Cover. |
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"Reader's Guide" (p. [38-40], second sequence). |
| Summary |
A self-portrait of a black teenage girl, big, fat, unloved, with a father who rapes her and a jealous mother who screams abuse. For Precious, as she is called, hope appears when a courageous teacher, a young black woman, bullies, cajoles and inspires her to learn to read. By the author of American Dreams. |
| Source |
NBK 2/10 PPL |
| Awards |
"Sundance Festival Award Winner"--Cover. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Fiction.
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Teenage mothers -- Fiction.
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African American girls -- Fiction.
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Child abuse -- Fiction.
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Literacy -- Fiction.
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Incest -- Fiction.
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Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Domestic fiction.
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Bildungsromans.
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| ISBN |
9780307474841 (pbk.) |
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0307474844 (pbk.) |
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