{"product_id":"the-bluest-eye-9780375411557","title":"The Bluest Eye","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER - \u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003ePARADE\u003c\/i\u003e BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME \u003cb\u003e- \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eFrom the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner--a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtly and grace.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Morrison's acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove--an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others--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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere, Morrison's writing is \"so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Toni Morrison\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/28\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Oprah's Book Club\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.55h x 5.28w x 0.83d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780375411557","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42707038601353,"sku":"9780375411557","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_88769d70-1b72-4c0e-91b9-235ee8092ec6.jpg?v=1719476221","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-bluest-eye-9780375411557","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}