The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye
Paperback – September 1, 1994
by Toni Morrison (Author)
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 subtly and grace.
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.
Here, Morrison’s writing is “so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry” (The New York Times).
ASIN: 0452273056
Publisher: Plume (September 1, 1994)
Language: English
Mass Market Paperback: 224 pages
ISBN-10: 9780452273054
ISBN-13: 978-0452273054
Item Weight: 6.7 ounces
Dimensions: 5.3 x 0.6 x 7.98 inches
