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Push : a novel

Author: Sapphire
Publisher: New York : Vintage Contemporaries/Vintage Books, 1997, ©1996.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : English : 1st Vintage Contemporaries edView all editions and formats
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Relentless, remorseless, and inspirational, this "horrific, hope-filled story" ("Newsday") is certain to haunt a generation of readers. Precious Jones, 16 years old and pregnant by her father with her second child, meets a determined and highly radical teacher who takes her on a journey of transformation and redemption.
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Genre/Form: Domestic fiction
Fiction
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Sapphire
ISBN: 0679766758 9780679766759 9781435242241 1435242246
OCLC Number: 37225301
Description: 139, [38] p. ; 21 cm.
Responsibility: by Sapphire.

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Relentless, remorseless, and inspirational, this "horrific, hope-filled story" ("Newsday") is certain to haunt a generation of readers. Precious Jones, 16 years old and pregnant by her father with her second child, meets a determined and highly radical teacher who takes her on a journey of transformation and redemption.
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Should Have Called It "Misery"

by AuntieM (WorldCat user published 2009-07-29) Excellent Permalink

Good Lord......This poor kid, Precious, has to be one of the strongest people I have ever read about. These parents of hers were worse than anything I can think of. Who sexes their own kid? Sick, peverted, twisted, page turner...I could not turn away from this book nor can I forget the horrors...
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