The Bluest Eye

By: Toni Morrison

Published 1988 by Triad Grafton Books (first published June 1st 1970)

Category: Arts

Pages: 192 pages

Description:
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. Eyes like those of the white girls in her neighbourhood. Eyes without which she will never know her own beauty. And granted the strange, magical power of THE BLUEST EYE, little Pecola will have them...