TY - BOOK AU - Morrison,Toni TI - The bluest eye SN - 9780099759911 U1 - 813.54 21 PY - 1999/// CY - London PB - Vintage KW - African American girls KW - Ohio KW - Fiction KW - Racism KW - Race relations KW - Bildungsromans N1 - Abstract: The chronicle of the tragic lives of a poor black family in 1940s America. Every night Pecola, unlovely and unloved, prays for blue eyes like those of her white schoolfellows. She becomes the focus of the mingled love and hatred engendered by her family's frailty and the world's cruelty; English N2 - The Bluest Eye chronicles the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in 1940s Ohio. Pecola, unlovely and unloved, prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged white schoolfellows UR - http://www.worldcat.org/title/bluest-eye/oclc/40838938&referer=brief_results UR - http://lib.ewubd.edu/ebook/7311 ER -