

Precious
Author: Sapphire
Narrator: Sapphire
Abridged: 2 hr 51 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: 06/03/2008
Categories: Fiction, Media Tie-in, African American & Black Fiction, Urban
Author: Sapphire
Narrator: Sapphire
Abridged: 2 hr 51 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: 06/03/2008
Categories: Fiction, Media Tie-in, African American & Black Fiction, Urban
Sapphire is the author of American Dreams, a collection of poetry which was cited by Publishers Weekly as, "One of the strongest debut collections of the nineties." Push, her novel, won the Book-of-the-Month Club Stephen Crane award for First Fiction, the Black Caucus of the American Library Association's First Novelist Award, and, in Great Britain, the Mind Book of the Year Award. Push was named by the Village Voice and Time Out New York as one of the top ten books of 1996. Push was nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literary Work of Fiction. About her most recent book of poetry Poet's and Writer's Magazine wrote, "With her soul on the line in each verse, her latest collection, Black Wings & Blind Angels, retains Sapphire's incendiary power to win hearts and singe minds." Sapphire's work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The Black Scholar, Spin, and Bomb. In February of 2007 Arizona State University presented PUSHing Boundaries, PUSHing Art: A Symposium on the Works of Sapphire. Sapphire's work has been translated into eleven languages and has been adapted for stage in the United States and Europe. Precious, the film adaption of her novel, recently won the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Awards in the U.S. dramatic competition at Sundance (2009).
PUSH exceeds the limits of my understanding. I am a white male; moderately affluent; educated; healthy; and able to say that my foundation from my past has allowed me to become the person I am today. Precious Jones is none of these things. If anything, she is the antithesis of what I am. This is not......more
I was going to write up a Celebrity Death Match between Sapphire and Dave Pelzer for the title of Most Abused Child Ever, but on second thoughts, silence is golden. One last thing. I remember reading Push and watching The Wire during the same week had a strange effect on me which for a white English......more
For the longest time "Precious" was my favorite "modern" (2009 & up) movie. It had the gospel-and-church-strong power to compel me to immediately look upon my own life reflexively, and pronounce it all not too bad after all. Other souls are in peril, of course, and all I can do is complain about my......more
Este es el libro que inspiró la película Precious. La película es mucho mejor que el libro, creo que es de lo pocos casos que conozco donde la adaptación supera el original. ¿Por qué? bueno, el libro se repite y se repite una y otra vez, recalcando que sufrió abusos por parte de su padre, y no me mal......more