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.

Format: Paperback
Published: in UK in 1999
Publisher: Vintage Books
Pages: 176
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9780099759911
ISBN 10: 0099759918
Edition: New Ed