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  • Another book I had to read for class. I didn't like as much as I liked her other ones. I did read the others when I was in high school, but I found this book disinteresting in certain places, especially in the long letter of Soaphead Church. The depth that the story goes into him over him bored me t ... Continue

    Another book I had to read for class. I didn't like as much as I liked her other ones. I did read the others when I was in high school, but I found this book disinteresting in certain places, especially in the long letter of Soaphead Church. The depth that the story goes into him over him bored me to tears. I thought it was far too much info to be given such a minor character despite the fact that he plays a big role...in the end.

    

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• ― Charley Snipe said on Apr 2, 2008 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature.

It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove -- a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others -- who 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.

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