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The bluest eye

Paperback • 1990 • English

The bluest eye

By Chloe Anthony Wofford

1 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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About the book

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 ...Show more

Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
Family life fiction
Poverty and precarity

Book details

ISBN

9780330305013

Published year

1990

Language

English

Original title

The bluest eye

Format

Paperback

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