Author Last Name,
Author First Name,
Pages,
Binding,
Edition,
ISBN 10,
ISBN 13,
Condition,
Publisher,
Date Published,
Specifications
Author Last Name:
Morrison
Author First Name:
Toni
Pages:
224
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
Reprint
ISBN 10:
9780307278449
ISBN 13:
9780307278449
Condition:
New
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date Published:
5/8/2007
Genre:
General Fiction
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtlety and grace.“So precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry”—The New York TimesIn Morrison’s acclaimed 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.
