The Bluest Eye

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Toni Morrison: The Bluest Eye (EBook, 2004, RosettaBooks)

electronic resource

English language

Published Nov. 8, 2004 by RosettaBooks.

ISBN:
978-0-7953-2737-7
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OCLC Number:
54487277

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4 stars (2 reviews)

The bluest eye 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.

36 editions

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.

Subjects

  • African Americans
  • Girls
  • Fiction

Places

  • Ohio