The Bluest Eye The Bluest Eye

The Bluest Eye

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Publisher Description

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtly and grace.
 
In Morrison’s acclaimed 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).

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
1993
December 28
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
224
Pages
PUBLISHER
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House Canada
SIZE
1.5
MB

Customer Reviews

isabelle morrissette ,

the bluest eye

This book looks at black women but in reality it is a picture of all women in the world who arrived in America and began a new life with a man and the wish to have a family. There were always the class differences and many of the women ’s first job was working as a domestic -hating their poverty and wishing for the finer things in life. The american dream was made from this myth no matter what the color of your skin —poverty is poverty and sorrowful situations arise in lower societies. A boring replica of life !!

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