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The Bluest Eye

By Toni Morrison
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The first novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved Read the searing first novel from the celebrated author of Beloved, which immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in post-Depression 1940s Ohio. Unloved, unseen, Pecola prays each night for blue... Read More
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The Bluest Eye

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The first novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved

Read the searing first novel from the celebrated author of Beloved, which immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in post-Depression 1940s Ohio.

Unloved, unseen, Pecola prays each night for blue eyes. In this way she dreams of becoming beautiful, of becoming someone—like her white schoolfellows—worthy of care and attention. Immersing us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in post-Depression Ohio, Toni Morrison's indelible debut reveals the nightmare at the heart of Pecola's yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfilment.

AS FEATURED IN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB

'She revealed the sins of her nation, while profoundly elevating its canon. She suffused the telling of blackness with beauty, whilst steering us away from the perils of the white gaze. That's why she told her stories. And why we will never, ever stop reading them.' — Afua Hirsch

'Discovering a writer like Toni Morrison is rarest of pleasures.' — Washington Post

'When she arrived, with her first novel, The Bluest Eye, she immediately re-ordered the American literary landscape.' — Ben Okri

Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781784879105

Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 August 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Vintage Classics

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 172g

Pages: 240

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About the Author

Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She was the author of many novels, including The Bluest Eye, Sula, Beloved, Paradise and Love. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honour, in 2012 by Barack Obama. Toni Morrison died on 5 August 2019 at the age of eighty-eight.

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