The Bluest Eye
“Morrison’s searing debut novel, powerfully narrated by the author herself, introduced the unforgettable Pecola Breedlove, a Black girl whose fervent prayer was to be seen and valued by others.”
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Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature, 1993
Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature, 1993
Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature, 1993
Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature, 1993
Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature, 1993
Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature, 1993
Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature, 1993
Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature, 1993
Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature, 1993
“So precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry”—The New York Times
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.
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