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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherWashington Square Press
ISBN-100671531468
ISBN-139780671531461
eBay Product ID (ePID)128378405
Product Key Features
Publication Year1984
Book TitleBluest Eye
TopicAfrican American / General, Coming of Age, Literary
Number of Pages160 Pages
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
AuthorToni Morrison
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight4.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition22
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLER - 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 ).