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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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1941Showing 11 featured editions. View all 57 editions?
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| 01 
        
          The Bluest Eye
        
        
        
         
          2007-05, Vintage International
         
          
          
          Paperback
          in English
          - 1st Vintage International ed. (17)
         
                0307278441 9780307278449
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| 02 
        
          The Bluest Eye
        
        
        
         
          2004, RosettaBooks
         
          
          
          Electronic resource
          in English
          - 1st electronic edition
         
                0795327374 9780795327377
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| 03 | eeee 
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| 04 
        
          The Bluest Eye
        
        
        
         
          2000 06, Alfred A. Knopf
         
          
          
          Hardcover
          in English
          - 7th printing
         
                0375411550 9780375411557
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| 05 
        
          L'Oeil le plus bleu
        
        
        
         
          October 30, 1998, Editions 10/18
         
          
          
          Mass Market Paperback
          in French
         
                2264028394 9782264028396
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| 06 | eeee | 
| 07 | eeee | 
| 08 
        
          The Bluest Eye
        
        
        
         
          1993 12, Alfred A. Knopf
         
          
          
          Hardcover
          in English
          - 1st Knopf ed.
         
                0679433732 9780679433736
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| 09 
        
          The Bluest Eye
        
        
        
         
          1979, Washington Square Press
         
          
          
          Mass Market Paperback
          in English
          - 1st Pocket Books printing (16)
         
                0671531468 9780671531461
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| 10 
        
          The Bluest Eye
        
        
        
         
          1979, Pocket Books
         
          
          
          Mass Market Paperback
          in English
          - 5th printing
         
                067182323X 9780671823238
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| 11 | eeee | 
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| March 4, 2019 | Edited by Lisa | Moved edition to primary work. | 
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