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The bluest eye / Toni Morrison ; with a new afterword by the author.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Knopf, 2000, �1993.Edition: 1st edDescription: 215 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0375411550
  • 9780375411557
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Bluest eye.DDC classification:
  • 813/.54 21
LOC classification:
  • PS3563.O8749 B55 2000
Other classification:
  • HU 4570
Online resources: Summary: 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.
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Book Book Richfield Campus Library Richfield Campus - Main Book Collection Fiction 813.54 M8342b 1 Available 34230000113582
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Originally published: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970.

"Oprah's book club"--Jacket.

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.

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The bluest eye / by Morrison, Toni ©1970
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