Push

本書改編成電影"珍愛人生"

【珍愛人生】由李丹尼爾斯執導，是一部激勵人心、誠摯感人又充滿希望的動人電影，描述一名黑人少女珍愛：她的人生拿到一手爛牌，又胖又醜還經常受到很大的屈辱，但是她從來沒有想要放棄自己。

故事背景設定在1987年的紐約市哈林區，16歲的黑人女孩克蕾絲「珍愛」瓊斯（嘉柏莉西迪貝 飾）從小就過著令人無法想像的悲慘生活。她遭受離家的父親性侵已兩度懷孕，在家還必須悉心伺候脾氣暴躁的母親（莫妮克 飾），而且母親經常虐待她，她動輒得咎，對她生理和心理都造成極大傷害。課業方面則是一片混亂，她雖然升到國三，卻有著一個不欲人知的秘密，那就是她不會讀也不會寫是個文盲。

珍愛有時會心情低落，但她從不放棄。雖然表面上喜怒不形於色，然而她內心其實是的對生命充滿好奇和強烈求生慾望的少女，使得她的人生存在各種可能性。在被退學的威脅下，她獲得機會轉學到特殊學校「一對一教學」。珍愛並不瞭解「特殊」所代表的意義，不過她的直覺告訴她，這是她一直在等待的機會。在文學營中，她接受耐心但嚴格的蕾恩小姐（寶拉巴頓 飾）指導，引領她走出黑暗、痛苦和無力感的生活，逐漸邁向光明、自主和充滿愛的人生。

A courageous and determined young teacher opens up a new world of hope and redemption for sixteen-year-old Precious Jones, an abused young African-American girl living in Harlem, who was raped and left pregnant by her father. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.

"Push: Based on the Novel by Sapphire," directed by Lee Daniels and written
by Damien Paul

GRAND JURY PRIZE and AUDIENCE AWARD winner at the 2009 Sundance Film
Festival

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.

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).