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  • The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision. Set in the author's girlhood hometown of Lorain, Ohio, it tells the story of black, eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove. Pecola prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be as beau ... Continue

    The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision. Set in the author's girlhood hometown of Lorain, Ohio, it tells the story of black, eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove. Pecola prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America. In the autumn of 1941, the year the marigolds in the Breedloves' garden do not bloom, Pecola's life does change - in painful, devastating ways.

    

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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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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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