About this title: Claireece Precious Jones is an overweight, illiterate black teenager pregnant with her second child--both the result of incest by her father--and infected with the AIDS virus--also thanks to her father. This first novel by the poet and performance artist Sapphire tells the story of how Precious miraculously finds redemption and deliverance through the efforts of one of her teachers, who teaches her to read and write.
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780679766759ISBN:0679766758
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 192 p. Audience: General/trade. brand new ships first class mail read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780679446262ISBN:0679446265
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
Date Published: 1996-06-01
ISBN-13:9780679446262ISBN:0679446265
Description: NEW. Hardcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780679446262. read more
Edition: First edition, advance reading copy.
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Date Published: 1996
Description: A fine copy. [AFRICAN-AMERICAN FICTION: WOMEN]. SAPPHIRE. PUSH. A Novel. Twelvemo, glossy printed wrappers, pp. xiv, 180. The author is a performance poet who lives in New York City; 'Push' is the author's first novel. read more
Edition: First
Publisher: Knopf, New York
Date Published: 1996
Description: Uncorrected proof. Advance reader's edition. 12mo. Near fine with corners flared. First novel, a black street girl, sixteen years old and pregnant, again, with her father's child, speaks. read more
Description: Printer Wrapper. First Edition. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC). ADVANCE READING COPY. Fine in red printed wrappers. Basis for the film "Precious. " read more
Edition: First edition. First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780679446262ISBN:0679446265
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 192 p. Audience: General/trade. First Edition/First Printing. Very Fine condition, brodart protected. Ships in a box. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780679446262ISBN:0679446265
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by author. SIGNED BY AUTHOR & dated 7/12/96. Very Fine and unread. Crisp, tight, clean, jacket has always been covered. Stated First Edition. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 192 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780679766759ISBN:0679766758
Description: New in new dust jacket. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 192 p. Audience: General/trade. brand new! get shipping credit when you purchase more than one item from OS Book! read more
"This book held me captive for about four hours, which I read until I finished the book. This was a hard book for me, because I had to look back on my own life, although I did not experience that much pain, but I do know about how you can fake it for people you come in contact with, who are not aware of your pain.
I know that this book will help me to become a better social worker, and look for what is not being said....."
"Yes, this is a powerful, angry raw book, and yeah, it really needs to be read, but by the end I felt rather numb about it all. Precious was totally unlikeable, unlike the way they're portraying her in the upcoming movie, and I liked that-I liked the fact that she wasn't this hard outer coated softie that we'd love and defend mentally by the end of the book; you defended her because it was the right thing to do. She had been so royally abused by reality that you WANT her to win something by the end, and even if it is a tiny phyrric victory, it is a victory. But at the same time, it all got to be too much-as if the author felt that what had happened to her in the past just was not enough horror, and HERE, take several shovels more. It got unbelievable, almost - you were waiting for something like a car to explode while she walked by and burning her, or hell, a 747 to fall from the sky on her head, maiming her. In a way, it lessened the impact of what WAS happening to her and how she dealt with it."
"This book reminds me of a car wreck...you know you shouldn't look at it but you can't help it. It's like I didn't wanna hear all the terrible things that happened in this book, but I had to. I had to know how they survived what they were thinking when all these things happened and where they took themselves because of it. This was an amazing book. My only complaint is I wish it would have been longer, I wanted justice for them, and I wanted to read about that justice, but I guess that wouldn't have made this book as good as it was...there are not always happy endings, in then end of this book it was their new beginings, I would have liked to read more about them. This book is powerful, and I became enthralled by it and it saddened me all at the same time, it was very sad. Things like this are happening all around us, it's just so hard to believe that there are horrible people in this world, and even harder to believe that there are people who enable their behavior. Long story short...read this book!"
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