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An edition of The Bluest Eye
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The Bluest Eye
1st Plume Printing (37)
by Toni Morrison
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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 and beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America. In the autumn of 1941, the year the marigolds in the Breedlove's garden do not blom, Pecola's life does change--in painful, devastating ways.
With it's vivid evocation of the fear and loneliness at the heart of a child's yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment, The Bluest Eye remains one of Toni Morrison's most powerful, unforgettable novels--and a significant work of American fiction.
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The Bluest Eye
2007-05, Vintage International
Paperback
in English
- 1st Vintage International ed. (17)
0307278441 9780307278449
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The Bluest Eye
2004, RosettaBooks
Electronic resource
in English
- 1st electronic edition
0795327374 9780795327377
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The Bluest Eye
2000 06, Alfred A. Knopf
Hardcover
in English
- 7th printing
0375411550 9780375411557
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The Bluest Eye
1993 12, Alfred A. Knopf
Hardcover
in English
- 1st Knopf ed.
0679433732 9780679433736
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The Bluest Eye
1979, Washington Square Press
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- 1st Pocket Books printing (16)
0671531468 9780671531461
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The Bluest Eye
1979, Pocket Books
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- 5th printing
067182323X 9780671823238
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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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