The Bluest Eye (Oprah's Book Club)

by ToniMorrison (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  1993

  $23.52

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $11.47

• Used

  Hardcover
  1990

  $3.43

  Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in.Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife. A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity, Toni Morrison' s virtuosic first novel asks powerful questions about race, class, and gender with the subtlety and grace that have always characterized her writing.

• New

  Paperback
  1999

  $11.57

  THE BLUEST EYE chronicles the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in 1940s Ohio: Pauline, Cholly, Sam and Pecola. Pecola, unlovely and unloved, prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged blond white schoolfellows. She becomes the focus of the mingled love and hatred engendered by her family's frailty and the world's cruelty as the novel moves toward a savage but poignant resolution.