The Bluest Eye

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: Toni Morrison
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 12/28/1993
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 7.55h x 5.28w x 0.83d
ISBN: 9780375411557

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.2
Point Value: 8
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 36938 / Bluest Eye


Review Citation(s):
Essence 08/01/2011 pg. 85
Essence 02/01/2011 pg. 168
Entertainment Weekly 06/27/2014 pg. 23

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.