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An edition of The Bluest Eye
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The Bluest Eye
1st Plume printing (16)
by Toni Morrison
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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 as beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America. In the autumn of 1941, the year the marigold in the Breedloves' garden do not bloom. Pecola's life does change—in painful, devastating ways.
With its vivid evocation of the feat and loneliness at the heart of a child's yearning, and the tragedy of it's fulfillment, The Bluest Eye remains on of Toni Morrison's most powerful, unforgettable novels—and a significant work of American fiction.
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The Bluest Eye
2007-05, Vintage International
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- 1st Vintage International ed. (17)
0307278441 9780307278449
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The Bluest Eye
2004, RosettaBooks
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The Bluest Eye
2000 06, Alfred A. Knopf
Hardcover
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0375411550 9780375411557
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The Bluest Eye
1999, G.K. Hall
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0783888155 9780783888156
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The Bluest Eye
1993 12, Alfred A. Knopf
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The Bluest Eye
1979, Pocket Books
Mass Market Paperback
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The Bluest Eye
1979, Washington Square Press
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- 1st Pocket Books printing (16)
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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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