The Bluest Eye A Novel - Vintage International Toni Morrison

The Bluest Eye A Novel - Vintage International Toni Morrison 1st Vintage International Edition Paperback (08 May 2007) Publisher's Synopsis NATIONAL BESTSELLER  A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME  From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner-a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtly and grace. In Morrison's acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove-an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others-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. Here, Morrison's writing is "so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry" (The New York Times). Book information ISBN: 9780307278449 Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Imprint: Vintage Books Pub date: 08 May 2007 Edition: 1st Vintage International Edition DEWEY: 813.54 DEWEY edition: 22 Language: English Number of pages: 205 Weight: 206g Height: 132mm Width: 201mm Spine width: 21mm