The Bluest Eye
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Publication
2000-06-01 - Alfred A. Knopf, New York, USA, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
53,750 words, Guess
Page Count
215 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archivebluesteye00morr_1
- ISBN-100375411550
- ISBN-139780375411557
- Goodreads848432
- Library of Congress Control Number93043124
and 6 more
- OCLC Control Number44274745
- OCLC Control Number1084278109
- OCLC Control Number441666535
- OCLC Control Number829225843
- Better World Books9780375411557
- Open LibraryOL13629280M
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3563.O8749 B54 2000
- LCCPS3568.O243
and 1 more
- LCCPS3563.O8749 B6 2010
Description
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...
Description
The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature. It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove--a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others--who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning and the tragedy of its fulfillment. (front flap)
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