The Bluest Eye

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Toni Morrison

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 subtlety 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).

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Author

Toni Morrison

Pages

224

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published Date

2007-07-24

ISBN

0307386589 9780307386588

Ratings

Google: 4

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"A rambling story of a young black girl’s experience…not for the faint of heart. There is a reason this book has been challenged and or banned by some school districts. Toni Morrison doesn’t hold back and her writing as always is beautiful."

Merry

"Eye opening and raw. Or maybe a better word is “real”. It’s a pretty deep read with deep topics to explore. Well written, even though much of it is disturbing. "

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Geriann Friday

"Beautiful, painful, and eye opening, this book was brilliantly written. "

AutisticJester

"Well written but messed up. Honestly, I don’t think it’s worth reading. Eloquently displays aspects of young (particularly black) girls experiences in America, but in a package that’s so unnecessarily grotesque. Definite trigger warning for anyone that wants to read this book. Saying that, I understand why people like this book. "

Téa Picconatto

"She's definitely a good writer in that she evokes great emotion from her writing, but also I was 15 when I read it, and it really messed with me for a bit. I suggest for people who can handle mature themes and understand what they're getting into."

Matt

"This book was extremely emotional and handled some very tough topics. The writing was beautiful and poetic while still packing a punch. The commentary on the white, western beauty standard will stick with me for the rest of my life. As will the ending, it was haunting."

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Alyssa Czernek

"My favorite book of all time!"

Wilma Williams

"College lit reading. Very graphic and vivid, but thought provoking"

Chrissy

"one of the best books I’ve ever read. I mean I could not put it down. toni morrison is a genius "

"Um guys this book really messed me up and me out of it for a bit the first time I read it but I think it was worth it I love Toni Morrison and her beautiful work I am planning to read a lot more of her books in the future"