The Bluest Eye Contributor(s): Morrison, Toni (Author) |
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ISBN: 0307278441 ISBN-13: 9780307278449 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2007 Annotation: First published in 1970 by Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature, the novel tells the story of 11-year-old Pecola Breedlove, the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | African American - General - Fiction | Coming Of Age |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2007276261 |
Lexile Measure: 920 |
Series: Vintage International |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.2" W x 7.95" (0.40 lbs) 224 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1940's - Cultural Region - Midwest - Demographic Orientation - Small Town - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - Ohio - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Catalog Heading - Language Arts - Curriculum Strand - Language Arts |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 36938 Reading Level: 5.2 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 8.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison powerfully examines our obsession with beauty and conformity--and asks questions about race, class, and gender with her characteristic subtly and grace. In Morrison's bestselling first novel, Pecola Breedlove--an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others--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. Here, Morrison's writing is "so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry" (The New York Times). |