Product DescriptionPecola 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.
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Rating: - Interesting but incomplete
The Bluest Eye is about race relations and, as such, can never be completely understandable to a non-American such as me. It revolves around a simple and very sad story of rape, incest and the victimisation of a little girl in 1940s America. It is told from the point of view of blacks - this was before the term African-American - and partly in another child's voice. The little girl thinks herself ugly and envies the looks of blue-eyed whites. That a black child could consider herself physically inferior ... Read More
Rating: - Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison's book is a reminder of some of this country's painful history and the realization that in many ways, not much has changed. It's educational, a thrilling read and provokes important thought. Recommended for any reader, particularly of classical literature.
Rating: - Realsim is profanity
How can you truly convey the horror of a situation without horrifying words. Reality is profanity and Morrison gets that- she never chooses a profane word in place of something else but, rather, uses that word because it is the only one that can be used. Wonderful book about finding your own beauty.
Rating: - Mature Book for Mature People
I read this book years ago and I thought it was a very good book. It has curse words, but it is done in taste. There is nothing wrong with a word and there is nothing wrong with talking about sex. These things happen everyday and to try to go through the world as if they don't exist is childlike and naive. They do exist and that is what the author is trying to express. It's reality.
Rating: - She uses the f word? Christ on a cracker!
Seriously, this is the only review of this book? She uses bad language and there is a lot of sexuality? Unfortunately, I haven't read this book (which is why I am looking at it on Amazon in the first place) but I thought people who looked at this page deserved a better review than that, so here is the Amazon.com review of the other cover version of the novel:
Oprah Book Club® Selection, April 2000: Originally published in 1970, The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel. In an afterword ... Read More
- Interesting but incomplete
- Bluest Eye
