The Bluest Eye

ISBN-13: 9780307278449 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 224 str.

Toni Morrison

Opis

Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in.Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife. A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity, Toni Morrison's virtuosic first novel asks powerful questions about race, class, and gender with the subtlety and grace that have always characterized her writing.

Recenzje

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So precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry.   The New York Times

A profoundly successful work of fiction. . . . Taut and understated, harsh in its detachment, sympathetic in its truth . . . it is an experience. The Detroit Free Press

This story commands attention, for it contains one black girl s universe. Newsweek

O autorze

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.