The Bluest Eye

Author(s): Toni Morrison

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THE BLUEST EYE chronicles the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in 1940s Ohio- Pauline, Cholly, Sam and Pecola. Pecola, unlovely and unloved, prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged blond white schoolfellows. She becomes the focus of the mingled love and hatred engendered by her family's frailty and the world's cruelty as the novel moves toward a savage but poignant resolution.

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Author won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993

"Not only a story but an awe-inspiring poem that confronts beauty itself." Guardian "So charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry" New York Times "I imagine if our greatest American novelist, William Faulkner, were alive today he would herald Toni Morrison's emergence as a kindred spirit... Discovering a writer like Toni Morrison is the rarest of pleasures" Washington Post "The Bluest Eye is a fine book, a lament for all starved and stunted children everywhere" Daily Telegraph "Morrison's style rivets the reader...her synaesthetic, often rhythmic, even chanting prose recalls both Faulkner and Emily Dickinson" The Times Literary Supplement

Toni Morrison is Robert F. Goheen Professor at Princeton University. She has written seven novels, the most recent of which is A Mercy and has received the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. She won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.

General Fields

  • : 9780099759911
  • : Random House UK
  • : VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
  • : 0.174
  • : April 1999
  • : 199mm X 131mm X 12mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Toni Morrison
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : 813/.54
  • : good