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An edition of The Bluest Eye
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The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
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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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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
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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
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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