Precious (Push Movie Tie-In Edition) (Random House Movie Tie-In Books) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Precious (Push Movie Tie-In Edition) (Random House Movie Tie-In Books) Book

Claireece Precious Jones endures unimaginable hardships in her young life. Abused by her mother, raped by her father, she grows up poor, angry, illiterate, fat, unloved and generally unnoticed. So what better way to learn about her than through her own, halting dialect. That is the device deployed in the first novel by poet and singer Sapphire. "Sometimes I wish I was not alive," Precious says. "But I don't know how to die. Ain' no plug to pull out. 'N no matter how bad I feel my heart don't stop beating and my eyes open in the morning." An intense story of adversity and the mechanisms to cope with it. Precious is now a major motion picture based on the novel Push by Sapphire, starring Gabourey 'Gabby' Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, and Lenny Kravitz. Enjoy these images from the film, and click the thumbnails to see larger images. Read More

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  • Product Description

    NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE

    Includes a Reading Group Guide

    Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible to the father who rapes her and the mother who batters her and to the authorities who dismiss her as just one more of Harlem's casualties. But when Precious, pregnant with a second child by her father, meets a determined and radical teacher, we follow her on a journey of education and enlightenment as she learns not only how to write about her life, but how to make it truly her own for the first time.

  • 0307474844
  • 9780307474841
  • Sapphire
  • 1 October 2009
  • Vintage Books USA
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 192
  • 1 Reprint
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