description: 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 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.From the Hardcover edition.
language: English
title: The Bluest Eye
titlecomplete: The Bluest Eye
characters: Pecola Breedlove, Cholly Breedlove, Pauline Breedlove
genres: Classics, Banned Books, Race, African American, Novels, School, Historical Fiction, Literature, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 238262
places: Lorain, Ohio, Ohio, Kentucky
publisher: Random House Audio