BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF BELOVEDToni Morrison's debut novel immerses us in the tragic torn lives of a poor black family
- Pauline Cholly Sam & Pecola
- in post-Depression 1940s Ohio Unlovely & unloved Pecola prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged white schoolfellows At once intimate & expansive unsparing in its truth-telling The Bluest Eye shows how the past savagely defines the present Winner of the PENSaul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction