The bluest eye / Toni Morrison, with a new afterword by the author.
By: Morrison, Toni
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Publisher: N.Y. : Plume Book, 1994Description: 216 p. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 0452273056 (pbk.).Subject(s): African Americans -- Fiction | Girls -- Fiction | Ohio -- FictionDDC classification: 813.54 Subject: Set in the author's girlhood hometown of Lorain. Ohio, in the early 1940's, 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. Pecola prays for her eyes to trun blue so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. The bluest eye is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning and the tragedy of its fulfullment.
| Item type | Current location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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| Main Collection | Taylor's Library-TU | 813.54 MOR (Browse shelf) | 1 | Available | SLASx,21003,01,GR | 5000062177 |
Set in the author's girlhood hometown of Lorain. Ohio, in the early 1940's, 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. Pecola prays for her eyes to trun blue so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. The bluest eye is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning and the tragedy of its fulfullment.