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The Bluest Eye
Contributor(s): Morrison, Toni (Author)

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ISBN: 0375411550     ISBN-13: 9780375411557
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: December 1993
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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.

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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
 
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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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