The Bluest Eye

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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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.

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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

  • African Americans
  • Girls
  • Fiction

Places

  • Ohio