The bluest eye

Author/Creator:

Morrison, Toni

Publication/Creation:

New York : Knopf, 2010, c1970

Format:

Book

More Details

Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

The bluest eye / Toni Morrison ; with a new afterword by the author

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

African Americans--Ohio--Fiction
Girls--Ohio--Fiction
Girls
Children
Family members
Ohio--Fiction

Description/Summary

Summary:

"It is the story of an 11 year old black girl in an American 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.... the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment"--Book Jacket.

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

215 p. ; 19 cm

General Note:

Sixteenth printing, September 2010; published April 27, 2000.
Originally published: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, c1970; Afterword copyright c1993.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

990033815960302486

ISBN:

0375411550
9780375411557

OCLC Number:

829225843

Barcode:

010002998114