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Knopf (1993), Edition: First Edition (states first thuys), Hardcover, 215 pages
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Fiction. African American Fiction. Literature. HTML: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 fulfil
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I have said "poetry." But "The Bluest Eye" is also history, sociology, folklore, nightmare and music. It is one thing to state that we have institutionalized waste, that children suffocate under mountains of merchandised lies. It is another thing to demonstrate that waste, to re-create those
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Oprah's Book Club selection (2000)
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215 p.; 7.55 inches
ISBN
0375411550 / 9780375411557