An edition of The Bluest Eye (1970)

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An edition of The Bluest Eye (1970)

The Bluest Eye

1st electronic edition

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  • ★★★★ 4.25 ·
  • 24 Ratings
  • 503 Want to read
  • 19 Currently reading
  • 53 Have read

The bluest eye is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove. A black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others, who 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.

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foster care, Dick and Jane, flashback, White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, inferiority complex, whiteness, third-person narrative, Coming of age, African American fiction, Eye, African American girls, Eleven-year-old girls, Incest, Fiction, Open Library Staff Picks, novels, fictional works, blacks, literary fiction, Bildungsromans, Girls in fiction, Girls, African Americans in fiction, African Americans, Ohio in fiction, Fiction in English, Afro-Americans, Afro-Americans in fiction, Literature, open_syllabus_project, Literary, African American, 1000blackgirlbooks, Historical fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Ohio, fiction, African americans, fiction, Fiction, coming of age, Large type books, nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2019-08-25, New York Times bestseller, collectionID:TexChallenge2021, collectionID:KellerChallenge, collectionID:EanesChallenge, collectionID:ConroeChallenge, Race identity, Racism, Child abuse, Colorism, Conformity, General, Foster care, Dick and jane, Flashback, White anglo-saxon protestants, Inferiority complex, Whiteness, Third-person narrative, African american fiction, African american girls, Open library staff picks, Novels, Fictional works, Blacks, Literary fiction, African americans in fiction, African americans, Fiction in english, Afro-americans, Afro-americans in fiction, Open_syllabus_project, African american
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Pecola Breedlove, Claudia MacTeer, Frieda MacTeer, Cholly Breedlove, Pauline Breedlove, Sam Breedlove, Auntie Jimmy, Samson Fuller, The Fishers, Geraldine, Louis Junior, Maginot Line, Rosemary Villanucci, Mr. Yacobowski, Maureen Peal, Soaphead Church, Dick, Jane
Places
Ohio, Lorain
Times
1941

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The Bluest Eye
2007-05, Vintage International
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The Bluest Eye
2004, RosettaBooks
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The Bluest Eye
2000 06, Alfred A. Knopf
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The Bluest Eye
2000?, Plume
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The Bluest Eye
1999, G.K. Hall
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The Bluest Eye
1994-02, Alfred A. Knopf
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The Bluest Eye
1994, Plume
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The Bluest Eye
1993 12, Alfred A. Knopf
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The Bluest Eye
1979, Pocket Books
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The Bluest Eye
1979, Washington Square Press
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Copyright Date
2004

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Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3563.O8749 B55 2004eb

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OL25568388M
ISBN 10
0795327374
ISBN 13
9780795327377
OCLC/WorldCat
54487277
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236205767
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25403362

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Each night Pecola prayed for blue eyes.

In her eleven years, no one had ever noticed Pecola. But with blue eyes, she thought, everything would be different. She would be so pretty that her parents would stop fighting. Her father would stop drinking. Her brother would stop running away. If only she could be beautiful. If only people would look at her.

When someone finally did, it was her father, drunk. He raped her. Soon she would bear his child...

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