
Pecola 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 examinatio...
Series: Vintage International
Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage; Reprint edition (May 8, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0307278441
ISBN-13: 978-0307278449
Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.6 x 7.9 inches
Amazon Rank: 3677
Format: PDF ePub Text djvu ebook
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This is a MUST read. This book is dark and powerful, poetic and real. All at once feeling like you want to run into the main character's vulnerable pain but wanting to look away at the same time. Morrison's command of writing is perfection. Absolute ...
session 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.