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An edition of The Bluest Eye
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The Bluest Eye
1st Vintage International ed. (17)
by Toni Morrison
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Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in.Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife. A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity, Toni Morrison's virtuosic first novel asks powerful questions about race, class, and gender with the subtlety and grace that have always characterized her writing.
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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
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- 7th printing
0375411550 9780375411557
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The Bluest Eye
1999, G.K. Hall
Hardcover
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0783888155 9780783888156
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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, Pocket Books
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- 5th printing
067182323X 9780671823238
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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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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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