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An edition of The Bluest Eye (1970)

The Bluest Eye

1st Plume Printing (37)

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  • 53 Have read

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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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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2004, RosettaBooks
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Copyright Date
1993

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Library of Congress
PS3563.O8749B55 1994

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Paperback
Pagination
216p.
Number of pages
216

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OL32029797M
ISBN 10
0452282195
ISBN 13
9780452282193
LCCN
94014448
OCLC/WorldCat
1014048326
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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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