The Bluest Eye Contributor(s): Morrison, Toni (Author) |
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ISBN: 0375411550 ISBN-13: 9780375411557 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: December 1993 Annotation: 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. Click for more in this series: Oprah's Book Club |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | African American - General - Fiction | Coming Of Age |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 93043124 |
Lexile Measure: 920(Not Available) |
Series: Oprah's Book Club |
Physical Information: 0.83" H x 5.28" W x 7.55" L (0.64 lbs) 224 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Midwest - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - Ohio |
Features: Dust Cover, Ikids, Price on Product |
Review Citations: Essence 08/01/2011 pg. 85 Essence 02/01/2011 pg. 168 Entertainment Weekly 06/27/2014 pg. 23 |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 36938 Reading Level: 5.2 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 8.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison powerfully examines our obsession with beauty and conformity--and asks questions about race, class, and gender with her characteristic subtly and grace. In Morrison's best-selling first novel, Pecola Breedlove--an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others--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. Here, Morrison's writing is "so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry" (The New York Times). |
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