num_pages: 215
description: The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision. Set in the author's girlhood hometown of Lorain, Ohio, it tells the story of black, eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove. Pecola prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America. In the autumn of 1941, the year the marigolds in the Breedloves' garden do not bloom. Pecola's life does change- in painful, devastating ways.What its vivid evocation of the fear and loneliness at the heart of a child's yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment. The Bluest Eye remains one of Toni Morrisons's most powerful, unforgettable novels- and a significant work of American fiction.
language: English
title: The Bluest Eye
titlecomplete: The Bluest Eye
characters: Pecola Breedlove, Cholly Breedlove, Pauline Breedlove
genres: Fiction, School, Banned Books, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Race, African American
ratings_count: 238276
places: Kentucky, Lorain, Ohio, Ohio
publisher: Washington Square Press, Pocket Books