In MorrisonвЂ™s bestselling first novel, Pecola Breedlovean 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can. She suffused the telling of blackness with beauty, whilst steering us away from the perils of the white gaze. Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison powerfully examines our obsession with beauty and conformityand asks questions about race, class, and gender with her characteristic subtly and grace. The Bluest Eye 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 - who 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. 'She revealed the sins of her nation, while profoundly elevating its canon. &0183 &32 This eBook is not available in your country. Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction 'When she arrived, with her first novel, The Bluest Eye, she immediately re-ordered the American literary landscape' Ben Okri 'Discovering a writer like Toni Morrison is rarest of pleasures' Washington Post

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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 MorrisonвЂ™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.She suffused the telling of blackness with beauty, whilst steering us away from the perils of the white gaze. 'She revealed the sins of her nation, while profoundly elevating its canon. 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 characterised her writing. At once intimate and expansive, unsparing in its truth-telling, The Bluest Eye shows how the past savagely defines the present. Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison powerfully examines our obsession with beauty and conformityand asks questions about r. Unlovely and unloved, Pecola prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged white schoolfellows. Read 'The Bluest Eye' by Toni Morrison available from Rakuten Kobo. Read the searing first novel from the celebrated author of Beloved, which immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in post-Depression 1940s Ohio.

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