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The very first novel by the indelible Toni Morrison explores America’s unflinching obsession with beauty through the eyes of 11-year-old Pecola, who prays for blue eyes. Sharp and insightful, Morrison’s narratives always retain an almost prophetic cultural relevance, and Bluest Eye is no different.
The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature.
It 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. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the traged...
It 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. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the traged...
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