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 LLC
SIZE
1.5
MB

Customer Reviews

Randel5 ,

Its rough love <3

What can I say about Toni Morrison that Oprah hasn't already said?

It is simply magnificent, I read it for a close comparative read of her and William Faulkner- I could barely put it down it was so captivating

It's tough to read sometimes because her focus on details to characters you would not normally want to focus on, making it difficult to really hate the antagonists or admire the protagonists. It's a lovely way to evaluate people through different views, understanding why "bad" people do the bad things they do...

It makes you stare down the characters intentions; whether it was done maliciously or was really well meant.

I loved it and would suggest it to anyone : )

yubgra ,

Speechless

After taking a good deep dive into what the words were actually saying did I put it all together. It is not a happy book but rather the most honest one there is. There is no sugarcoating and dwindling of things down. The truth is bare and that is what makes it great. The different points of view really piece it all together, learning of a single person yet learning it from how other see her, how her parents see themselves and how this affects her is extraordinary. It was a tough read especially near the end not because of bad writing or the writers fault but because of the attachment you grow to have with the characters. Comparing and learning that what a fictional character when through its what many already experienced. It is humbling and it taught me to have gratitude. 100% recommend.

Angelica812 ,

The Bluest Eye

The stars speak for themselves. Toni Morrison’s incredible, talented gift of story telling never disappoints and always gives us an in depth detailed telescoped vision into the characters in the Bluest Eye. A book my Mother owned and now I was privileged to read. No Toni Morrison book should ever be banned. Every generation should be introduced to her works and it should be in their curriculum in the classroom or home. I am grateful to have finally read “The Bluest Eye.”

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