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The Bluest Eye
Author: Toni Morrison

Book Information
Publisher: Knopf
Book Type: Hardcover
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ISBN-13: 9780375411557 - ISBN-10: 0375411550
Publication Date: 12/28/1993
Pages: 224


Other Versions of this Book: Audio CD (Unabridged), Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette

Book Description:
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 tragedy of its fulfillment.

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Top Member Book Reviews

Ciara Z. (ciaradawn) wrote on 4/17/2008...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

I read this book in one of my college classes. I enjoyed it very much but there is a lot of stuff in it that is very hard to read and get through; a lot of hard topics. But it is a very good book; well written & though provoking.

Marci and Duane S. (flame60) wrote on 6/22/2007...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

This book was extremely well written. I really enjoyed it. It describes how one little girl is impacted by the bias towards blond hair and blue eyes.


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Carol S. (eatsleepread) wrote on 11/20/2009...


Extremely disturbing but well written book about women, culture and childhood.

Haley D. (haleyj) wrote on 6/8/2008...


Oprah book club pick!

Keish K. wrote on 3/21/2008...


Love everything about this novel. From Morrison's style to her message and symbols. Must read!!

(crackabook) wrote on 2/13/2008...


Some may enjoy this one. I have no comment. Not my cup of tea, I stopped reading.

Jill L. wrote on 8/24/2007...


Oprah's Book Club

Shannon S. wrote on 6/11/2006...


good book


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