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The Bluest Eye

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The chronicle of the tragic lives of a poor black family in 1940s America. Every night Pecola, unlovely and unloved, prays for blue eyes like those of her white schoolfellows. She becomes the focus of the mingled love and hatred engendered by her family's frailty and the world's cruelty.

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The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison

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1990
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Language
English
Publisher
Picador
Released
1990
Format
Paperback
Pages
176
ISBN10
0330305018
ISBN13
9780330305013
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First published
1970
Original title
The Bluest Eye
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The chronicle of the tragic lives of a poor black family in 1940s America. Every night Pecola, unlovely and unloved, prays for blue eyes like those of her white schoolfellows. She becomes the focus of the mingled love and hatred engendered by her family's frailty and the world's cruelty.