Push (Signed First Edition)

Sapphire

ISBN 10: 0679446265 / ISBN 13: 9780679446262

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1996

About this Item

First Edition. First printing. A very fine (as-new) copy in a very fine (as-new) jacket. A clean, tight copy with price ($20.00) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. A beautiful copy. SIGNED by Sapphire on the half-title (as pictured).

Seller Inventory # FLAHIVE-1880

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Push (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679446265
• ISBN 13: 9780679446262
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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.

About the Author

This is Sapphire's first novel. She was born in 1950 and grew up on army bases in California, Pennsylvania, and Texas. She was graduated from City College in New York, received an MFA from Brooklyn College, and taught reading and writing to teenagers and adults in Harlem and the Bronx for eight years. Sapphire is a performance poet and the author of American Dreams. She lives in New York City.