The bluest eye

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Toni Morrison: The bluest eye (Paperback, 1972, Washington Square Press)

mass market paperback, 160 pages

English language

Published Nov. 8, 1972 by Washington Square Press.

ISBN:
978-0-671-74292-8
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OCLC Number:
23826043

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3 stars (2 reviews)

Eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, an African-American girl in an America whose love for blonde, blue-eyed children can devastate all others, prays for her eyes to turn blue, so that she will be beautiful, people will notice her, and her world will be different.

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reviewed The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Not a pleasant book, but very well written

4 stars

Toni Morrison weaves a story that deals heavily with the topic of beauty. There were some scenes in this book that were incredibly difficult to read, including scenes of the sexual assault of children. Toni Morrison is a really talented writer, and this book packs a serious punch.

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Subjects

  • Coming of age
  • African American fiction
  • Eye
  • African American girls
  • Eleven-year-old girls
  • Incest
  • Fiction