The Bluest Eye: A Novel

Toni Morrison

Jul 2011 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Toni Morrison and Karen Murray

About this audiobook

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtlety and grace. • With a new introduction by Jacqueline Woodson.

“So precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry”—The New York Times

In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others—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.

Ratings and reviews

It says unabridged but I'm trying to follow along with my copy and so far full pages of important text are missing. Seemingly at random multiple paragraphs on each page are just skipped over. The whole part about destroying the baby dolls which is extremely significant is just gone.

The bluest eye is a book that will remain forever in my heart. The authors words are beyond beautiful. The stories held withing this book are powerful. Take time and read

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About the author

Toni Morrison is the author also of Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Beloved (awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1988), and Jazz.