The Bluest Eye (Camden S.)

by Toni Morrison

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.

• ISBN10: 0452282195
• ISBN13: 9780452282193
• Publish Date: 27 April 2000 (first published 1 December 1972)
• Publish Status: Unknown
• Out of Print: 30 January 2010
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Penguin Putnam Inc
• Format: Paperback (UK Trade)
• Pages: 224
• Language: English

Reviews

[inlibrisveritas]

I have decided that I am not a Toni Morrison fan and there isn't anything that's going to change that. This was slightly better then Beloved as far as being able to follow it but I still didn't get it. It's written in a way that's hard for me to understand and makes everything very jumbled to me.