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The Bluest Eye

by Toni Morrison
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New York Times Bestseller
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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.
“So precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry.”  —The New York Times

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Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Kindle Book

  • Release date: July 24, 2007

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9780307386588
  • Release date: July 24, 2007

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9780307386588
  • File size: 829 KB
  • Release date: July 24, 2007

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Kindle Book
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subjects

Fiction African American Fiction Literature

Languages

English

Levels

ATOS Level:5
Lexile® Measure:920
Interest Level:9-12(UG)
Text Difficulty:3-5

New York Times Bestseller
A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK!
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.
“So precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry.”  —The New York Times

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Fiction African American Fiction Literature
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