{"product_id":"the-bluest-eye-vintage-international","title":"The Bluest Eye (Vintage International)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003ePARADE\u003c\/i\u003e BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK! \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"So precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry.\" \u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"A profoundly successful work of fiction. . . . Taut and understated, harsh in its detachment, sympathetic in its truth . . . it is an experience.\" \u003cb\u003e --\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Detroit Free Press\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This story commands attention, for it contains one black girl's universe.\" \u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eNewswee\u003cstrong\u003ek\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1970, this edition features a new foreword by the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eToni Morrison\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of eleven novels and three essay collections. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019. \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Toni Morrison","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50846942200093,"sku":"9780307278449","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9780307278449.jpg?v=1768604064","url":"https:\/\/staging.anovelideaphilly.com\/products\/the-bluest-eye-vintage-international","provider":"A Novel Idea on Passyunk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}