The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

New York Times Bestseller

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 examination of our obsession 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.

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

Toni Morrison was born in Lorain, Ohio. She now divides her time between Rockland County, New York, and Princeton, New Jersey. She is Robert F. Goheen Professor, Council of the Humanities, Princeton University. She is the author of five other novels: The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, which won the 1978 National Book Critics Award for fiction, Tar Baby and Beloved, which won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780783888156
ISBN 10	0783888155
Title	The Bluest Eye
Author	Toni Morrison
Series	Thorndike Core
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Thorndike Press
Year published	1999-12-01
Number of pages	256
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