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Rent The Bluest Eye (Oprah's Book Club)
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Format: Paperback, Paperback
Publisher: Penguin USA
Published: Apr 2000
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Retail Price: $14.00
Pages: 216
Synopsis
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.
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