The Bluest Eye (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307278449)

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).

Author: Toni Morrison
ISBN-10: 0307278441
ISBN-13: 9780307278449
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 05/08/2007
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.95h x 5.20w x 0.60d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.2
Point Value: 8
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 36938 / Bluest Eye


Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 03/29/2024 pg. 1