The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
Jul 2011 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Toni Morrison
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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 fulfillment.
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 fulfillment.
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March 9, 2020
It says unabridged but I'm trying to follow along with my copy and so far full pages of important text are missing. Seemingly at random multiple paragraphs on each page are just skipped over. The whole part about destroying the baby dolls which is extremely significant is just gone.
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October 13, 2018
The bluest eye is a book that will remain forever in my heart. The authors words are beyond beautiful. The stories held withing this book are powerful. Take time and read
About the author
Toni Morrison is the author also of Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Beloved (awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1988), and Jazz.
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