The bluest eye

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Mass Market Paperback, 160 pages

English language

Published Nov. 8, 1972 by Washington Square Press.

ISBN:
978-0-671-74292-8
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OCLC Number:
23826043

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Eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, an African-American girl in an America whose love for blonde, blue-eyed children can devastate all others, prays for her eyes to turn blue, so that she will be beautiful, people will notice her, and her world will be different.

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reviewed The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

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As Toni lays out, "I focused, therefore, on how something as grotesque as the demonization of an entire race could take root inside the most delicate member of society: a child; the most vulnerable member: a female."

A truly devastating book in almost every regard.

Subjects

  • Coming of age
  • African American fiction
  • Eye
  • African American girls
  • Eleven-year-old girls
  • Incest
  • Fiction