The Bluest Eye

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

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.

Report

Beautiful and uncompromising... Essential reading and a novel that changes each time you return to it Kate Mosse Guardian

Product details

• Authors: Toni Morrison, Morrison Toni
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.05.2024
• EAN: 9781784879105
• ISBN: 978-1-78487-910-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Ohio, FICTION / Literary, 20th Century, FICTION / Southern, Narrative theme: Social issues, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, c 1940 to c 1949, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), FICTION / African American & Black / Women, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, Relating to African American / Black American people