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The Kid

The Kid( )
Author: Sapphire,
ISBN:978-0-241-14529-6
Publication Date:Sep 2011
Publisher:Penguin Books, Limited
Imprint:Hamish Hamilton
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $29.95
Book Description:

FIFTEEN YEARS AFTER THE PUBLICATION OF PUSH, SAPPHIRE GIVES VOICE TO ABDUL JONES, THE SON OF HER UNFORGETTABLE HEROINE, PRECIOUS. The Kidis an electrifying story of body and spirit that takes us deep into the interior life of Abdul. We meet him at age nine, on the day of his mother's funeral. Left alone to navigate in a world where the edges of love and hate often bleed into one another with horrifying consequences, and forced to confront unspeakable...
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Book Details
Pages:376
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Coming Of Age
Fiction / African American & Black / General
Fiction / City Life
Fiction / African American & Black / Urban & Street Lit
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.5 x 23 x 2.7 cm
Book Weight:0.5 Kilograms
Author Biography
Sapphire (Author)
Sapphire was born Ramona Lofton in Fort Ord, California on August 4, 1950. She attended City College of New York and received her master's degree at Brooklyn College. Before starting her writing career, she worked as a performance artist and a teacher of reading and writing. Her works include the poetry collection American Dreams and the novel Push, which 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 the Mind Book of the Year Award in Great Britain. Precious, the film adaption of her novel Push, won the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Awards in the U.S. dramatic competition at Sundance (2009). Her 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 2009, she was the recipient of a Fellow Award in Literature from United States Artists.

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