![]() ![]() ![]() 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. It is the story of 11-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. At once intimate and expansive, unsparing in its truth-telling, The Bluest Eye shows how the past savagely defines the present. Unlovely and unloved, Pecola prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged white schoolfellows. 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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