The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye
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The Bluest Eye

Written by Toni Morrison
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216
Page count
241
Words per page
920L
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Dec 28, 1993
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME - 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).

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    Book Details

    ISBN
    9780375411557
    Publication Date
    December 28, 1993
    Publisher
    Knopf
    Original Publication Date
    June 1, 1970
    Page Count
    216
    Words Per Page
    241
    Audience
    Adult
    Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
    93043124
    WorldCat Number (OCLC)
    43963986
    Lexile® Level
    920L
    Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
    ~V
    ATOS® Book Level
    5.2
    Accelerated Reader® Points
    8
    Accelerated Reader Quiz
    36938
    Accelerated Reader Interest Level
    UG

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