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An edition of The Bluest Eye
(1970)
The Bluest Eye
1st Plume printing (16)
by Toni Morrison
- 8 Ratings
- 212 Want to read
- 13 Currently reading
- 24 Have read
This edition was published in 1994 by Plume in New York, USA.
Written in English
The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision. Set in the author's girlhood hometown of Lorain Ohio, it tells the story of black, eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove. Pecola prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be as beautiful as beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America. In the autumn of 1941, the year the marigold in the Breedloves' garden do not bloom. Pecola's life does change—in painful, devastating ways.
With its vivid evocation of the feat and loneliness at the heart of a child's yearning, and the tragedy of it's fulfillment, The Bluest Eye remains on of Toni Morrison's most powerful, unforgettable novels—and a significant work of American fiction.
--back cover
Subjects
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 booksPreviews available in: English
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The Bluest Eye
2007-05, Vintage International
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The Bluest Eye
2007-05, Vintage International
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The Bluest Eye: A Novel
2007 05, Vintage International
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The Bluest Eye
May 8, 2007, RH Audio
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Ojos azules/ The Bluest Eyes (Contemporanea)
February 5, 2004, Debolsillo
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The Bluest Eye
2004, RosettaBooks
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Ojos Azules / Bluest Eye
January 2002, Debolsillo
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The Bluest Eye
2000 06, Alfred A. Knopf
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The Bluest Eye
1999, G.K. Hall, Chivers Press
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L'Oeil le plus bleu
October 30, 1998, Editions 10/18
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Bluest Eye, the (Picador Books)
July 1998, MacMillan
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The Bluest Eye
1993 12, Alfred A. Knopf
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The bluest eye
1993, Knopf, Distributed by Random House
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The Bluest Eye
1992, Washington Square Press
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The Bluest Eye
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The Bluest Eye
1979, Washington Square Press
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The Bluest Eye
1972, Washtington Square Press
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The Bluest Eye
April 1970, Recorded Books
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The bluest eye: a novel.
1970, Holt, Rinehart and Winston
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The Bluest Eye
First published in 1970
Subjects
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 booksPeople
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, JaneTimes
1941Work Description
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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The Bluest Eye
1st Plume printing (16)
This edition was published in 1994 by Plume in New York, USA.
Edition Description
The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision. Set in the author's girlhood hometown of Lorain Ohio, it tells the story of black, eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove. Pecola prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be as beautiful as beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America. In the autumn of 1941, the year the marigold in the Breedloves' garden do not bloom. Pecola's life does change—in painful, devastating ways.
With its vivid evocation of the feat and loneliness at the heart of a child's yearning, and the tragedy of it's fulfillment, The Bluest Eye remains on of Toni Morrison's most powerful, unforgettable novels—and a significant work of American fiction.
--back cover
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