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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...

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Main Author: Morrison, Toni (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Knopf, 2000, ©1993.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Oprah's Book Club.
Subjects:
African Americans > Ohio > Fiction.
Girls > Ohio > Fiction.
Ohio > Fiction.
Racism > Fiction.
Child abuse > Fiction.
Colorism > Fiction.
Coming-of-age fiction.
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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.
Item Description:Originally published: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970.
"Oprah's book club"--Jacket.
Physical Description:215 pages ; 20 cm.
Audience:Young Adult.
Awards:Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
ISBN:0375411550
9780375411557
0452273056
9780452273054
0452282195
9780452282193
0679433732 :
0606069402
9780307278449
Author Notes:Toni Morrison was born in Lorain, Ohio on February 18, 1931. She received a B.A. in English from Howard University in 1953 and a master's degree in English from Cornell University in 1955 with her thesis on the theme of suicide in modern literature. She taught at several universities including Texas Southern University, Howard University, and Princeton University.

Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. Her other works include Sula, Tar Baby, Jazz, Paradise, Love, A Mercy, Home, and God Help the Child. She has won several awards including the National Book Critics Circle Award for Song of Solomon in 1977, the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved in 1988, the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012, the Edward MacDowell Medal for her outstanding contribution to American culture in 2016, and the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction in 2016. She also co-wrote children's books with her son, Slade Morrison, including The Big Box, The Book of Mean People, and Peeny Butter Fudge.

Toni Morrison passed away on August 5, 2019 at the age of 88, after a short illness.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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