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Bezig met laden... Precious (Push Movie Tie-in Edition) (Vintage Contemporaries) (editie 2009)door Sapphire
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Digital audiobook narrated by the author I’ve wanted to read this ever since the Oscars ceremony that highlighted the film (which I have yet to see). Precious Jones is a young pregnant black teenager, who is functionally illiterate and the product of an abusive home. But Precious has a fierce determination to care for the baby growing inside her and to better her life. She WILL learn to read. She WILL keep her baby. She WILL succeed. The issues raised are horrific and difficult to read about and process. Brava to Sapphire for highlighting the plight of young people such as her protagonist. The writing is raw and brutal; the story is gripping and inspiring. My heart broke for Precious, even as I cheered her on. I did have a copy of the text handy, as I typically do for audiobooks. But I didn’t look at it until I had finished listening. On opening that first page I am struck by the author’s use of vernacular dialect, and the kind of misspellings a person like Precious would resort to in writing her own story. I’m reminded of Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, and how listening to the audio of that work made it easier to absorb the story. The author narrates the audiobook herself, and I cannot imagine that anyone else would have done a better job.
What do you get if you borrow the notion of an idiosyncratic teen-age narrator from J. D. Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye" and mix it up with the feminist sentimentality and anger of Alice Walker's "Color Purple"? The answer is "Push," a much-talked-about first novel by a poet named Sapphire, a novel that manages to be disturbing, affecting and manipulative all at the same time. Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Precious (1) Is herverteld inHeeft de bewerkingIs verkort inHeeft als studiegids voor studentenPrijzenOnderscheidingenErelijsten
An electrifying first novel that shocks by its language, its circumstances, and its brutal honesty, Push recounts a young black street-girl's horrendous and redemptive journey through a Harlem inferno. For Precious Jones, 16 and pregnant with her father's child, miraculous hope appears and the world begins to open up for her when a courageous, determined teacher bullies, cajoles, and inspires her to learn to read, to define her own feelings and set them down in a diary. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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Intressant skriven, stundvis väldigt grafisk och tar upp väldigt mörka teman såsom incest, våldtäkt och pedofili osv. Handlingen följer den 16 åriga Precious som är analfabet och bor i Harlem, New York. Läsaren bevittnar hur hon kämpar sig genom sitt hårda och orättvisa liv.
Detta är en relativt kort novell och har ett öppet slut. Läsaren vet hur det kommer att sluta för Precious men inte hur pass mycket hon kommer att åstadkomma innan. Önskar därefter att denna novell vore lite längre.
Rekommenderas enbart om läsaren klarar av att hantera dessa ovanstående mörka teman.