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American Dreams
by Sapphire
- Used
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0679767991
- ISBN 13
- 9780679767992
- Seller
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Frederick, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Vintage. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner’s name, short gifter’s inscription or light stamp.
Synopsis
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).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Wonder Book
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- U14P-00506
- Title
- American Dreams
- Author
- Sapphire
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0679767991
- ISBN 13
- 9780679767992
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1996-06-18
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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About Wonder Book
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