The bluest eye

mass market paperback, 160 pages

English language

Published Nov. 19, 1972 by Washington Square Press.

ISBN:
9780671742928
OCLC Number:
23826043

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Eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, an African-American girl in an America whose love for blonde, blue-eyed children can devastate all others, prays for her eyes to turn blue, so that she will be beautiful, people will notice her, and her world will be different.

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Subjects

  • Coming of age
  • African American fiction
  • Eye
  • African American girls
  • Eleven-year-old girls
  • Incest
  • Fiction