Sapphire,  1950- <br/><br/>
Push :  a novel / 
by Sapphire. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York :  Alfred A. Knopf :  Distributed by Random House,  1996. 
 - 141 p. ;  20 cm. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0679446265 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>96016516  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>African Americans--Fiction.<br/>Teenage mothers--Fiction.<br/>African American girls--Fiction.<br/>Child abuse--Fiction.<br/>Literacy--Fiction.<br/>Incest--Fiction.<br/>Afroamericanos--Novela.<br/>Primera Jornada de Catalogación.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Domestic fiction.<br/>Bildungsromane.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS 3569  / S241p 1996