The Bluest Eye

Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison's best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work.Pecola Breedlove longs for blond hair and blue eyes, so that she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America. In the autumn of 1941, the marigolds her garden will not bloom, and her wish will not come true. Pecola's life is about to change in other painful and devastating ways.A powerful interrogation of what it means to conform to an idea of beauty, The Bluest Eye asks vital questions about race, class and gender and remains one of Toni Morrison's most unforgettable works.

Product details

• Authors: Toni Morrison, Morrison Toni
• Assisted by: Candice Carty-Williams (Introduction)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9781784876449
• ISBN: 978-1-78487-644-9
• No. of pages: 172
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 178 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics Morrison
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Ohio, FICTION / Literary, 20th Century, FICTION / Southern, Narrative theme: Social issues, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Relating to African American people, Modern and contemporary fiction, c 1940 to c 1949, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), FICTION / African American & Black / Women, Racism and racial discrimination, Relating to African American / Black American people