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Publisher: Vintage

Author: Toni Morrison

ISBN: 9780307278449

Year: 2007

Format: Paperback

Classics, Historical fiction

Bluest Eye by
Toni Morrison

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$ 500.00 mxn

Bluest Eye by

Toni Morrison

Reviews

"So precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry."

New York Times

Summary

Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in. Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife.

A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity, Toni Morrison's virtuosic first novel asks powerful questions about race, class, and gender with the subtlety and grace that have always characterized her writing.

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