MORRISON, TONI — The Bluest Eye

Vintage Publishing 1999 172p. SOFTCOVER: (Orig. pict. cover. Light traces of use. VERY GOOD) MORRISON, TONI = Prineton professor R. F. Goheen.In the THE BLUEST EYE she chronicles the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in 1940s Ohio: Pauline, Cholly, Sam and Pecola. Pecola, unlovely and unloved, prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged blond white schoolfellows. She becomes the focus of the mingled love and hatred engendered by her family's frailty and the world's cruelty as the novel moves toward a savage but poignant resolution. A novel that immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family - Pauline, Cholly, Sam and Pecola - in post-Depression 1940s Ohio. Unlovely and unloved, Pecola prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged white schoolfellows.