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An edition of The Bluest Eye (1970)

The Bluest Eye

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  • ★★★★ 4.25 ·
  • 24 Ratings
  • 503 Want to read
  • 19 Currently reading
  • 53 Have read

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, Foster care, Dick and jane, Flashback, White anglo-saxon protestants, Inferiority complex, Whiteness, Third-person narrative, African american fiction, African american girls, Open library staff picks, Novels, Fictional works, Blacks, Literary fiction, African americans in fiction, African americans, Fiction in english, Afro-americans, Afro-americans in fiction, Open_syllabus_project, African american
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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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Ohio, Lorain
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1941

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The Bluest Eye
2007-05, Vintage International
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The Bluest Eye
2004, RosettaBooks
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The Bluest Eye
2000?, Plume
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The Bluest Eye
2000 06, Alfred A. Knopf
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The Bluest Eye
1999, G.K. Hall
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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, Pocket Books
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The Bluest Eye
1979, Washington Square Press
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1972, Pocket Books
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Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages
160

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OL7666275M
ISBN 10
067182323X
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4592
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