The bluest eye /
The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature. It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove - a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others - who prays for her eye...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Knopf :
1993.
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| Edition: | First Knopf edition. |
| Series: | Oprah's book club.
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| Online Access: | Sample text Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
| Summary: | The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature. It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove - a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others - who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning and the tragedy of its fulfillment--Publisher's description. |
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| Item Description: | The Cushing Library/Basbanes copy contain 1 piece of ephemera. |
| Physical Description: | 215 pages ; 20 cm |
| ISBN: | 0679433732 9780679433736 0375411550 9780375411557 0452287065 9780452287068 0452282195 9780452282193 0307278441 9780307278449 0452273056 9780452273054 |