The Bluest Eye (Vintage International)
by Toni Morrison | Women's Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0307278441 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0307278441 Global Overview for this book
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From the back:
'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 childeren 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.
September 2011: I found this a sad, disturbing story... almost all the characters have a sad unfulfilled life... filled with poverty and abuse.
'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 childeren 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.
September 2011: I found this a sad, disturbing story... almost all the characters have a sad unfulfilled life... filled with poverty and abuse.
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