Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye
By Harold Bloom
2001
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3.87
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247
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Presents the story of Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl who prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be as beautiful as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America. This book also presents a collection of critical essays and an introduction that offers insight into this novel that tackles the crucial themes of race and identity.
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Author
Harold Bloom
Author · 172 books
Harold Bloom was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. Since the publication of his first book in 1959, Bloom has written more than forty books of literary criticism, several books discussing religion, and one novel. He edited hundreds of anthologies.
