Author: Toni Morrison
Year: 1970
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Classic, Historical fiction
Culture: African-American
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9780452287068
9780307278449
0452287065
0307278441 |
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"The Bluest Eye" is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision.
Set in the author's girlhood hometown of Lorain, Ohio, it tells the story of black, eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove. Pecola prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America. In the autumn of 1941, the year the marigolds in the Breedloves' garden do not bloom. Pecola's life does change - in painful, devastating ways.
What its vivid evocation of the fear and loneliness at the heart of a child's yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.
"The Bluest Eye" remains one of Tony Morrisons's most powerful, unforgettable novels - and a significant work of American fiction.
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