The Bluest Eye

Zusatztext New edition of this Toni Morrison title! published to coincide the releaseof the major film version of (Beloved). Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext New edition of this Toni Morrison title, published to coincide the release of the major film version of "Beloved". Zusammenfassung A novel that immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family - Pauline, Cholly, Sam and Pecola - in post-Depression 1940s Ohio. Unlovely and unloved, Pecola prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged white schoolfellows.

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Not only a story but an awe-inspiring poem that confronts beauty itself. Guardian

Product details

• Authors: Toni Morrison, Morrison Toni
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.03.1999
• EAN: 9780099759911
• ISBN: 978-0-09-975991-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Vintage Paperbacks; Vintage Paperbacks
• 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