The Bluest Eye

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P1CAD0R THE BLUEST EYE by TÓNI MORRISON The Bluest Eye 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 fór blue eyes like those of her privileged blond, white schoolfellows. She becomes the focus of the mingled lőve and hatred engendered by her family's frailty and the world's cruelty as the növel moves towards a savage bút poignant resolution. Tóni Morrison has achieved worldwide acélaim as one of the most important writers of her generation in America. In 1988 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize fór Fiction fór Beloved. The Bluest Eye, originally published in America in 1970, is Morrison's first növel. ' The Bluest Eye is an inquiry intő the reasons why beauty gets wasted in this country. The beauty in this case is black; the wasting is done by a cultural engine that seems to have been designod to murder possibilities...and she does it with a prose so precise, so faithful to... Tovább

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P1CAD0R THE BLUEST EYE by TÓNI MORRISON The Bluest Eye 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 fór blue eyes like those of her privileged blond, white schoolfellows. She becomes the focus of the mingled lőve and hatred engendered by her family's frailty and the world's cruelty as the növel moves towards a savage bút poignant resolution. Tóni Morrison has achieved worldwide acélaim as one of the most important writers of her generation in America. In 1988 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize fór Fiction fór Beloved. The Bluest Eye, originally published in America in 1970, is Morrison's first növel. ' The Bluest Eye is an inquiry intő the reasons why beauty gets wasted in this country. The beauty in this case is black; the wasting is done by a cultural engine that seems to have been designod to murder possibilities...and she does it with a prose so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the növel becomes poetry' JOHN LEONARD, THE NEW YORK TIMES 'I imagine if our greatest American novelist (William F aulkner) were alive today he would herald Toni Morrison's emergence as a kindred spirit.. .discovering a writer like Toni Morrison is the rarest of pleasures' CHARLES R LARSON, WASHINGTON POST 'Ms Morrison's versatility and technical and emotional rangé appear to know no bounds' MARGARET ATWOOD, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 'Tóni Morrison...writes with a fierce possessive poetry and sympathy that proclaims her as an exciting new star in the firmament' CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH, THE GUARDIAN Vissza