3 compact discs/ 3 hours Read by Toni Morrison and Ruby Dee Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, The Bluest Eye (1970) is the first novel written by Toni Morrison. It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove--a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others--who 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Audio Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375416536
ISBN-13
9780375416538
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1765181
Product Key Features
Book Title
Bluest Eye
Author
Toni Morrison
Format
Audio, OTHER
Language
English
Topic
African American / General, Literary
Publication Year
2000
Genre
Fiction
Dimensions
Item Length
4.9in.
Item Height
1in.
Item Width
5.7in.
Item Weight
7.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Edition Description
Abridged Edition
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.