by Toni Morrison (Author)
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - 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).
Author Biography
TONI MORRISON is the author of 11 novels and 3 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.
Number of Pages: 224
Dimensions: 0.6 x 7.95 x 5.2 IN
Publication Date: May 08, 2007
Accelerated Reader:
Quiz Name: Bluest Eye
Interest Level: Upper Grades, 9-12
Reading Level: 5.2
Point Value: 8
