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The Bluest Eye
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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.
"So precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry"--The New York Times
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.
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Book Details
ISBN:
9780375411557
EAN:
9780375411557
Binding:
Hardcover
Pages:
224
Authors:
Toni Morrison
Publisher:
Knopf Publishing Group
This book will take you through every emotion if you read it with an open heart. I don't want to spoil it for anyone, so I will just say this is a MUST READ!!!
Ashamed that I've never read this book earlier in my life, but I'm glad I did now. I had to read it for my grad course for my final paper. This book is beautiful and disturbing at the same time. Its not for the weak at all. I had to stop myself from reading it because I once had self-loathing thoughts about myself. This book has very vivid imagery and I loved how Morrison uses multiple point of views to tell Pecola's story. I saw in one comment someone thought it was laughable. This isn't a joking matter especially if you don't understand the stresses of people of color. This book still rings true today on the beauty standards that continue to effect African American woman. It is still a thing after 50+ years after it was written. Colorism is still a thing. Self-loathe is still a thing. This is a reminder that people have hidden pain internally inside them. Maybe this book would have helped me at 15, but it helped me now to see and understand not only myself, but others who struggle to love themselves. Other non POC who read this book, I hope you take away something important and people in my community who struggle still with their feelings, I want you to know you are loved. You are important. You are beautiful. Do not let anyone tell you otherwise. You are here for a reason and you matter.
This book was just overall great!!! I’m ready to read all her other books !! Toni Morrison is a genius when it comes to writing you actually feel like you’re living through the characters!!
Great book to add to your library.
Beautiful book
