The Bluest Eye

Author(s): Toni Morrison

General Fiction

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.


Product Information

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