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The Bluest Eye - (Oprah's Book Club) by Toni Morrison (Hardcover)

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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.
  • About the Author: TONI MORRISON is the author of eleven novels and three essay collections.
  • 224 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary
  • Series Name: Oprah's Book Club

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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.

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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A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME

A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK!

"So precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry." --The New York Times

"A profoundly successful work of fiction. . . . Taut and understated, harsh in its detachment, sympathetic in its truth . . . it is an experience." --The Detroit Free Press

"This story commands attention, for it contains one black girl's universe." --Newsweek



About the Author



TONI MORRISON is the author of eleven novels and three essay collections. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.
Dimensions (Overall): 7.55 Inches (H) x 5.28 Inches (W) x .83 Inches (D)
Weight: .64 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 224
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Literary
Series Title: Oprah's Book Club
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
Author: Toni Morrison
Language: English
Street Date: December 28, 1993
TCIN: 11828623
UPC: 9780375411557
Item Number (DPCI): 248-25-7408
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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