The Bluest Eye
$23.54
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
19 November 2024
Summary
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 nig…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784879105 |
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| ISBN-10: | 178487910X |
| Author: | Toni Morrison |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 19 November 2024 |
| Weight: | 172g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 15mm |
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Critics Review
Beautiful and uncompromising… Essential reading and a novel that changes each time you return to it – Kate Mosse * Guardian *
About The Author
Toni Morrison
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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