Push / a novel by Sapphire.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sapphire, 1950-

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Fiction.

African Americans.

Literacy.

Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.

Harlem (New York, N.Y.).

Teenage mothers--Fiction.

Teenage mothers.

African American girls--Fiction.

African American girls.

Child abuse--Fiction.

Child abuse.

Literacy--Fiction.

Incest--Fiction.

Incest.

Domestic fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Sapphire, 1950- (autograph) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages, 141 pages, 39 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Distribution:

New York : Distributed by Random House, Inc.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

"This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc."

The last 38 pages are "Life Stories Our Class Book".

"This book was set in Janson, a typeface long thought to have been made by the Dutchman Anton Janson, who was a practicing typefounder in Leipzig during the year 1668-1687. However, it has been conclusively demonstrated that these types are actually the work of Nicholas Kis (1650-1702), a Hungarian, who most probably earned his trade from the master Dutch typefounder Dirk Voskens."--A Note on the Type.

"Designed by Virginia Tan."

"Jacket design by Archie Ferguson."

Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Awards - First Novelist, Winner, 1997

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

Banks Collection copy has 6 leaves of notes on 8 x 13 cm. paper written in ms.

Banks Collection copy has autograph of Sapphire 6/26/96.

ISBN:

0679446265 :

OCLC:

34557216