Synopsis In this novel about the nature of black identity, narrated by Pecola's friend Claudia, we learn that Pecola was raped by her father, and is plagued with a desire to be white.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 2000-04-01 |
| Size | | Height: | 8.3 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 8.0 oz |
Publisher's Note The story of Pecola Breedlove profiles 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.
Industry Reviews "She reveals herself...as a writer of considerable power and tenderness, someone who can cast back to the living, bleeding heart of childhood and capture it on paper....With the flaws and virtues tallied, I found myself still in favor of 'The Bluest Eye'....The writer who can reveal the beauty and the hope beneath the surface is a writer to seek out and to encourage." New York Times Book Review - Haskel Frankel (11/01/1970)
"So charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry." Phillips
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