The bluest eye: a novel
(Book)
Author:
Published:
New York, New York : Vintage International, 1970,2007.
Format:
Book
Edition:
1st Vintage International edition.
Physical Desc:
xiii, 205 pages ; 21 cm
Accelerated Reader:
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure:
920L
Status:
Description
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 subtly and grace.
In Morrison’s acclaimed 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).
In Morrison’s acclaimed 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).
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Language:
English
ISBN:
9780307278449, 0307278441
Accelerated Reader:
UG
Level 5.2, 8 Points
Level 5.2, 8 Points
Lexile measure:
920
Notes
Description
The chronicle of the tragic lives of a poor black family in 1940s America. Every night Pecola, unlovely and unloved, prays for blue eyes like those of her white schoolfellows. She becomes the focus of the mingled love and hatred engendered by her family's frailty and the world's cruelty.
Study Program Information
Accelerated Reader AR,UG,5.2,8,36938.
Citations
APA Citation (style guide)
Morrison, T. (19702007). The bluest eye: a novel. 1st Vintage International edition. New York, New York, Vintage International.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Morrison, Toni. 19702007. The Bluest Eye: A Novel. New York, New York, Vintage International.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Morrison, Toni, The Bluest Eye: A Novel. New York, New York, Vintage International, 19702007.
MLA Citation (style guide)Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye: A Novel. 1st Vintage International edition. New York, New York, Vintage International, 19702007.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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