{"product_id":"the-bluest-eye-1","title":"The Bluest Eye","description":"\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRead the searing first novel from the celebrated author of\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBeloved\u003c\/i\u003e, which immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in post-Depression 1940s Ohio.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eUnlovely and unloved, Pecola prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged white schoolfellows. At once intimate and expansive, unsparing in its truth-telling, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Bluest Eye\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e shows how the past savagely defines the present. A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity, Toni Morrison’s virtuosic first novel asks powerful questions about race, class, and gender with the subtlety and grace that have always characterised her writing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e‘She revealed the sins of her nation, while profoundly elevating its canon. She suffused the telling of blackness with beauty, whilst steering us away from the perils of the white gaze. That’s why she told her stories. And why we will never, ever stop reading them’ Afua Hirsch\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e‘Discovering a writer like Toni Morrison is rarest of pleasures’\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e‘When she arrived, with her first novel,\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Bluest Eye\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, she immediately re-ordered the American literary landscape’ Ben Okri\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWinner of the PEN\/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Best of used books","offers":[{"title":"Used","offer_id":44273322950913,"sku":"2STBAGNI9-Used","price":150.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0421\/4299\/0495\/products\/02589630147.jpg?v=1667459494","url":"https:\/\/bestofusedbooks.com\/products\/the-bluest-eye-1","provider":"Best Of Used Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}