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The Bluest Eye

by Toni Morrison

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtlety and grace. • With a new introduction by Jacqueline Woodson. “So precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry”—The New York Times In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl ...

First published: 1970 226 pages ISBN: 9780307386588
Category
Literature
Priority
Must-Read
Author works
7
Language
eng
Subjects
foster careDick and JaneflashbackWhite Anglo-Saxon Protestantsinferiority complexwhitenessthird-person narrativeComing of ageAfrican American fictionEye

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