The Bluest Eye
By: Toni Morrison, with a new afterword by the author.
Edition: 1st Plume printing (21)
Publisher: Plume
Published: 2000?
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9780452282193
Copyright date: 1993
Subjects: African Americans -- Ohio -- Fiction; Girls -- Ohio -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
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 Breedlove's garden do not blom, Pecola's life does change--in painful, devastating ways.

With it's 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 Morrison's most powerful, unforgettable novels--and a significant work of American fiction.
--back cover
Notes: Originally published: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970.