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The Bluest Eye (Vintage International)
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).
TONI MORRISON is the author of eleven novels and three essay collections. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.
Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison’s first novel follows a Black girl who, surrounded by the racism of 1940s Ohio, longs to be white. It has been banned and challenged throughout its publication history – most recently in 2021 and 2022 – because “it depicts child sexual abuse and was considered sexually explicit.”
ISBN: 9780307278449
ISBN-10: 9780307278449
Publisher: Vintage
Publication Date: 05/08/2007 - 12:00am
On Sale: 05/08/2007 - 12:00am
Pages: 224
Language: English
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