An edition of Precious (1998)

Precious (Push Movie Tie-in Edition) (Vintage Contemporaries)

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An edition of Precious (1998)

Precious (Push Movie Tie-in Edition) (Vintage Contemporaries)

  • 4.00 ·
  • 3 Ratings
  • 17 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 2 Have read

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.

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.

Publish Date
Publisher
Vintage
Pages
192

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Precious
Precious: Based on the Novel Push
2010, Penguin Random House
in English
Cover of: Precious
Precious
Feb 02, 2010, Contemporary French Fiction, Points
pocket book
Cover of: Precious (Push Movie Tie-in Edition) (Vintage Contemporaries)
Cover of: Precious (Push Movie Tie-in Edition) (Vintage Contemporaries)
Precious (Push Movie Tie-in Edition) (Vintage Contemporaries)
October 20, 2009, Vintage
Paperback
Cover of: Precious
Precious
Oct 23, 2009, Brand: Books on Tape, Books on Tape
audio cd
Cover of: Precious
Precious
1998, Penguin Random House
in English

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Book Details


First Sentence

"I was left back when I was twelve because I had a baby for my fahver."

Classifications

Library of Congress
PS3569.A63 P87 1996, PS3569.A63 P87 1997, PS3569.A63 P87 2009

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
192
Dimensions
7.9 x 5.1 x 0.8 inches
Weight
9.6 ounces

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24088802M
Internet Archive
preciouspushmovi00sapp
ISBN 10
0307474844
ISBN 13
9780307474841
LCCN
96016516
OCLC/WorldCat
368022334, 34557216
Amazon ID (ASIN)

Work Description

This is the story of Precious Jones, a sixteen year old illiterate black girl who has never been out of Harlem. She is pregnant by her own father for the second time, and kicked out of school when that pregnancy becomes obvious. Placed in an alternative teaching programme, she learns to read and write. This is Precious's diary, in which she honestly records her relationships and her life.

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