mass market paperback, 160 pages
English language
Published 1972 by Washington Square Press.
The bluest eye
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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.
Subjects
- Coming of age
- African American fiction
- Eye
- African American girls
- Eleven-year-old girls
- Incest
- Fiction