Oprah Book Club® Selection, April Originally published in , The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel. In an afterword written more than two decades later, the author expressed her dissatisfaction with the book's language and structure: "It required a sophistication unavailable to me."/5(K). Toni Morrison is the author of eleven novels, from The Bluest Eye () to God Help the Child (). She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in Cited by: · 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 as beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America.
Free download or read online The Bluest Eye pdf (ePUB) book. The first edition of the novel was published in June 1st , and was written by Toni Morrison. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of pages and is available in Paperback format. The main characters of this fiction, classics story are Pauline Breedlove, Cholly Breedlove. The Bluest Eye, published in , is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 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. The book I read was The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, a novel about a young, dark-skinned girl growing up in the US after the Great Depression who believes herself to be ugly; she wishes for blue.
Book-banning controversies. Montgomery County, Maryland. The Bluest Eye was legally challenged on Febru by a mother from Montgomery County, Maryland named Christine Baker City, Oregon. Claremont, New Hampshire. Littleton, Colorado. Howell, Michigan. Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison is the Robert F. Goheen Professor of Humani-ties, Emeritus at Princeton University. She has received the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. In she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She lives in Rockland County, New York, and Princeton, New Jersey. The Bluest Eye (), the first novel by Toni Morrison. Set in Morrison’s hometown of Lorain, Ohio, in –41, the novel tells the tragic story of Pecola Breedlove, a young African American girl from an abusive home. Pecola equates beauty and social acceptance with whiteness, so she longs to have ‘the bluest eye.’.
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