Relates the story of Pecola Breedlove, an eleven-year-old Black girl growing up in an America that values blue-eyed blondes, and the tragedy that results from her longing to be accepted.
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Relates the story of Pecola Breedlove, an eleven-year-old Black girl growing up in an America that values blue-eyed blondes, and the tragedy that results from her longing to be accepted.
Description
A reissue of Toni Morrison's first novel, published in 1970. It is the story of a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others; she prays for her eyes to turn blue, so that she will be beautiful, so that her world will be different ...
Critic Reviews
“"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 From the Trade Paperback edition.”
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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
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.
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