The Bluest Eye

Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison powerfully examines our obsession with beauty and conformity—and asks questions about race, class, and gender with her characteristic subtly and grace.   In Morrison’s bestselling first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others—prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.   Here, Morrison’s writing is “so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry” (The New York Times).

Additional ISBNs: 0452273056, 0375411550, 0452282195, 9780452273054, 9780375411557, 9780452282193

The Bluest Eye is written by Toni Morrison and published by Vintage. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for The Bluest Eye are 9780307386588, 0307386589 and the print ISBNs are 9780307278449, 0307278441.