Push: A Novel
by Sapphire
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Author: SapphireEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1997-04-29
ISBN: 0679766758
Number of pages: 192
Publisher: Vintage
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- ISBN13: 9780679766759
- Condition: New
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Book Reviews of Push: A Novel
Book Review: Precious' realistic hardship built in one book!
Summary: 5 Stars
Sapphire's book Precious shines a light on unpleasant issues many dare to speak or want to ever experience. It can also be arguably positive to be graphic and make the readers uncomfortable in order to avoid sugarcoating something unpleasant and to make the readers really care about something that shouldn't be taken lightly. But Precious goes far beyond those first two goals and aims for pure shock value and emotional manipulation and twisted titillation. Some of us have never experienced growing up in the 1980's in Harlem where living in the "projects and surviving off of welfare was the way to live. By reading this book, many are able to absorb this concept through reading this book.
Dope dealers in the streets while crack addicts wonder the streets making this type of neighborhood unpleasant for any child to witness. Precious lived in an environment that was not favorable for her. Her life at home was full of abuse and depression. How does one cope with such a horrible life? It is amazing to see how precious deals with her unfavorable circumstances. Precious got involved in school and used education as a copping mechanism. From the help of her new teacher, Precious was able to understand that education was important, rather than depending on welfare. It amazes me to see how Precious grasps the concept of life when she said "I'm going to break through or somebody going to break through to me". This statement shows a sense of hope and strength in Precious that helps build her character throughout the story. Who can become successful at anything if you are surrounded by such negativity? This book is definitely fiction but realistically people do experience this every day. To anyone including Precious, it is a live or die situation.
The book embodies a feminist point of view rather than the taboo of incest. In a series of flashbacks, Precious reflects on an erotic love story with her dad, which ultimately led to the birth of her two children. Unlike other love stories you would ever read, this one introduces a different tone and subject matter that portrays a feeling subjectively addressed to the listener. She smoothly leaps onto financial issues leading to life's tragedy of HIV. Precious use of "I" throughout the text was not particularly addressed to her baby father (Carl), but rather an opinion which depicts her feeling. She describes aspects of human body like the "human tongue," with the concept of a "snake" to represent something troubling.
Precious had such an ingenuity in describing the characters in the novel. She effortlessly finds an organic structure to enlighten her audience about the depravity in an abusive incest seeking to change the power relation between men and women within a patriarchal society. Moreover, she freely expresses a passionate desire in keeping with the creation of Adam and Eve. I would add that there was through education and social welfare activities, a paradigm shift which led to a maturity of love in her family.
Summary of Push: A Novel
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.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.
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