Format:
Book
Author:
Morrison, Toni.
Title:
The bluest eye / Toni Morrison ; with a new afterword by the author.
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Knopf, 2000, ©1993.
Description:
215 pages ; 20 cm.
Summary:
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 -- 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. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.
Target Audience Note:
Young Adult.
Series:
Oprah's book club
Oprah's book club.
Subjects:
African Americans -- Ohio -- Fiction.
Girls -- Ohio -- Fiction.
Racism -- Fiction.
Child abuse -- Fiction.
Colorism -- Fiction.
Ohio -- Fiction.
Genre:
Bildungsromans.
Notes:
Originally published: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970.
"Oprah's book club"--Jacket.
Accelerated Reader Grades 9-12 5.2 8 SD Quiz 36938 English fiction.
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Web Site:
LCCN:
* 93043124
ISBN:
0375411550
0307278441
9780375411557
0375411550
9780307278449
0452273056
9780452273054
0452282195
9780452282193
Other Number:
43963986
System Availability:
12
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
12
Control Number:
960676
Call Number:
FICTION Morrison
Course Reserves:
0
# Local items in:
6
# System items in:
6