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The Bluest Eye Hardcover - 1993
by Morrison, Toni
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- Title The Bluest Eye
- Author Morrison, Toni
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Knopf, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
- Date 1993
- Features Dust Cover
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0375411550I4N00
- ISBN 9780375411557 / 0375411550
- Weight 0.64 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 7.55 x 5.28 x 0.83 in (19.18 x 13.41 x 2.11 cm)
- Reading level 920
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Catalog Heading: Language Arts/Literature
- Cultural Region: Midwest
- Curriculum Strand: Language Arts/Literature
- Demographic Orientation: Small Town
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Geographic Orientation: Ohio
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Library of Congress subjects Bildungsroman, African Americans - Ohio
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93043124
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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About this book
The Bluest Eye is a 1970 novel by American author Toni Morrison. It is Morrison's first novel, written while Morrison was teaching at Howard University and was raising her two sons on her own. The story is about a year in the life of a young black girl in Lorain, Ohio named Pecola Breedlove. It takes place against the backdrop of America's Midwest as well as in the years following the Great Depression.
Brutal in its depictions of racism, incest, and child molestation, The Bluest Eye has remained on the often-challenged and banned books list almost every year since its publication.
Brutal in its depictions of racism, incest, and child molestation, The Bluest Eye has remained on the often-challenged and banned books list almost every year since its publication.
Summary
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.From the Hardcover edition.
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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.
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.
First Edition Identification
Quite scarce! Morrison's first novel was published by Holt Rinehart Winston in New York, 1970. The first edition is stated on the copyright page, and the jacket is priced at $5.95.
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Citations
- Entertainment Weekly, 06/27/2014, Page 23
- Essence, 08/01/2011, Page 85