Push (Signed First Edition)

SAPPHIRE

ISBN 10: 0679446265 / ISBN 13: 9780679446262

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1996

About this Item

First edition. Hardcover. The first novel and second book from this African-American writer and performance artist. The basis for the acclaimed movie Precious which was nominated for six Academy Awards. Mo' Nique won an Oscar for her gritty performance. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed and dated by Sapphire a month after publication. Uncommon in such nice condition. Seller Inventory # 111454

Bibliographic Details

Title: Push (Signed First Edition)

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York

Publication Date: 1996

Binding: Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

An electrifying first novel that shocks by its language, its circumstances, and its brutal honesty, Push recounts a young black street-girl's horrendous and redemptive journey through a Harlem inferno. For Precious Jones, 16 and pregnant with her father's child, miraculous hope appears and the world begins to open up for her when a courageous, determined teacher bullies, cajoles, and inspires her to learn to read, to define her own feelings and set them down in a diary.

Review:

Claireece Precious Jones endures unimaginable hardships in her young life. Abused by her mother, raped by her father, she grows up poor, angry, illiterate, fat, unloved and generally unnoticed. So what better way to learn about her than through her own, halting dialect. That is the device deployed in the first novel by poet and singer Sapphire. "Sometimes I wish I was not alive," Precious says. "But I don't know how to die. Ain' no plug to pull out. 'N no matter how bad I feel my heart don't stop beating and my eyes open in the morning." An intense story of adversity and the mechanisms to cope with it.

Precious is now a major motion picture based on the novel Push by Sapphire, starring Gabourey 'Gabby' Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, and Lenny Kravitz. Enjoy these images from the film, and click the thumbnails to see larger images.