Toni Morrison

<b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER - <b>A <i>PARADE</i> BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME <b>- </b></b>From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner-a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtly and grace.</b><br/>&#160;<br/>In 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.<br/>&#160;<br/>Here, Morrison's writing is "so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry" (<i>The New York Times</i>).

<b>PULITZER PRIZE WINNER -</b> <i><b>NEW YORK TIMES</b></i><b> BESTSELLER&#160;- A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. With a new afterword by the author.&#160;<br/><br/>This&#160;"brutally powerful, mesmerizing story" (<i>People) </i>is an&#160;unflinchingly look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner.</b><br/><br/>Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free.&#160;Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.&#160;<br/><br/>"A masterwork.... Wonderful.... I can't imagine American literature without it." -John Leonard, <i>Los Angeles Times</i>