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Sapphire , Tayari Jones , Sapphire , Sapphire, Lofton, Ramona (b. 1950)
Alfred A. Knopf • 1996 • 141 pages
About the Author
Sapphire
b. 1950 · 1 work
Ramona Lofton (born August 4, 1950), better known by her pen name Sapphire, is an American author and performance poet.
Description
Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible: invisible to the father who rapes her and the mother who batters her and to the authorities who dismiss her as just one more of Harlem's casualties. But when Precious, pregnant with a second child by her father, meets a determined and highly radical teacher, we follow her on a journey of education and enlightenment...
Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible: invisible to the father who rapes her and the mother who batters her and to the authorities who dismiss her as just one more of Harlem's casualties. But when Precious, pregnant with a second child by her father, meets a determined and highly radical teacher, we follow her on a journey of education and enlightenment as Precious learns not only how to write about her life, but how to make it her own for the first time
This Edition
Alfred A. Knopf · 1996 · 141 pages
- ISBN-10
- 0679446265
- Language
- ENG
