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An edition of The Bluest Eye (1970)

The Bluest Eye

1st Vintage International ed. (17)

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  • ★★★★ 4.2 (26 ratings) ·
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Pecola 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.
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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

People

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

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Ohio, Lorain

Times

1941
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Bluest Eye
2021, Penguin Random House
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En Mavi Göz
Nov 06, 2017, Sel Yayıncılık
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The Bluest Eye
2015, Vintage
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The bluest eye
2007, Dramatic Publishing
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2007-05, Vintage International
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1994, Plume
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1972, Washington Square Press
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The Bluest Eye
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The Bluest Eye
1970, Holt McDougal
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Copyright Date
2007

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813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3563.O8749 B55 2007, PS3563.O8749B55 2007

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Format
Paperback
Pagination
xiii, 205p.
Number of pages
205

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OL27931964M
ISBN 10
0307278441
ISBN 13
9780307278449
LCCN
2007276261
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938980151, 123955951
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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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