An edition of The Bluest Eye (1970)

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An edition of The Bluest Eye (1970)

The bluest eye

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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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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

Places

Ohio, Lorain

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1941

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The Bluest Eye
2007-05, Vintage International
Paperback in English - 1st Vintage International ed. (17)
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The Bluest Eye
2004, RosettaBooks
Electronic resource in English - 1st electronic edition
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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
Hardcover in English - U.S. Large print edition
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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, Washington Square Press
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The Bluest Eye
1979, Pocket Books
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The bluest eye
1972, Washington Square Press
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First Sentence

"Nuns go by as quiet as lust, and drunken men and sober eyes sing in the lobby of the Greek hotel."

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Open Library
OL7648534M
ISBN 10
0671476238
ISBN 13
9780671476236
OCLC/WorldCat
10454045
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4592
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May 10, 2023 Edited by AgentSapphire merge authors
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