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The Bluest Eye

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Based on 99,506 Ratings and 4,534 Reviews

Book 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 ... More
Book Information
PublisherAlfred A. Knopf
BindingHardcover (65 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages215
ISBN-100679433732
ISBN-13978-0679433736
Publication Date/1993
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About Toni Morrison (Author) : Toni Morrison is a published author and a narrator of children's books. Some of the published credits of Toni Morrison include Untitled Modern Aesop, Song of Solomon, Who's Got Game?: The Ant or the G... more
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