The Bluest Eye

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Toni Morrison: The Bluest Eye (Hardcover, 1993, Alfred A. Knopf)

Hardcover, 216 pages

English language

Published Dec. 8, 1993 by Alfred A. Knopf.

ISBN:
978-0-679-43373-6
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OCLC Number:
1081780402

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3 stars (2 reviews)

The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature.

It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove -- a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others -- who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment. (back cover)

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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

  • African Americans -- Ohio -- Fiction
  • Girls -- Ohio -- Fiction