{"product_id":"0307278441-the_bluest_eye_a_novel","title":"The Bluest Eye: A Novel","description":"\n\n\u003cp\u003ePecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in.Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife. 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 characterized her writing.\u003cbr\u003e\n                        \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the 1993 Nobel Prize-winner comes a novel \"so charged with pain and wonder that it becomes poetry\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e). First published in 1965, \u003ci\u003eThe Bluest Eye\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a black girl who prays -- with unforeseen consequences--for her eyes to turn blue so she will be accepted.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCategories:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePolitics \u0026amp; Social Sciences\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePolitics \u0026amp; Government\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpecific Topics\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\u003cli class=\"category-tree\"\u003eCensorship\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Used - Very Good","offer_id":46670655422654,"sku":"0307278441-3","price":15.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/9689\/5166\/files\/71OfLcPEfoL.jpg?v=1776881615","url":"https:\/\/shop.sustainablebooks.com\/products\/0307278441-the_bluest_eye_a_novel","provider":"Sustainable Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}