The Bluest Eye -- Toni Morrison

<p><b>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.</b> <p/>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. <p/>Here, Morrison's writing is "so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry" (<i>The New York Times</i>). <p/></p><br><br><b>Author:</b> Toni Morrison<br><b>Publisher:</b> Knopf Publishing Group<br><b>Published:</b> 12/28/1993<br><b>Pages:</b> 224<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Hardcover<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.64lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.55h x 5.28w x 0.83d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780375411557<br><br><b>Accelerated Reader:</b><br><b>Reading Level:</b> 5.2<br><b>Point Value:</b> 8<br><b>Interest Level:</b> Upper Grade<br><b>Quiz #/Name: </b>36938 / Bluest Eye<br><br><br><b>Review Citation(s): </b><br><i>Essence</i> 08/01/2011 pg. 85<br><i>Essence</i> 02/01/2011 pg. 168<br><i>Entertainment Weekly</i> 06/27/2014 pg. 23<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>Toni Morrison has worked in publishing and has taught at various universi