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008    051104t20051970nyu           000 1 eng d 
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035    (OCoLC)62222005 
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050  4 PS3563.O8749|bB55 2005 
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100 1  Morrison, Toni,|eauthor. 
245 14 The bluest eye /|cToni Morrison, with an afterword by the 
       author. 
264  1 New York :|bPlume,|c2005. 
264  4 |c©1970 
300    215 pages ;|c22 cm. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
490 1  Plume essential editions 
500    Originally published: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970. 
520    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. The story of eleven-year-old 
       Pecola Breedlove, the tragic heroine of Toni Morrison's 
       haunting first novel, grew out of her memory of a girlhood
       friend who wanted blue eyes. Shunned by the town's 
       prosperous black families, as well as its white families, 
       Pecola lives with her alcoholic father and embittered, 
       overworked mother in a shabby two-room storefront that 
       reeks of the hopeless destitution that overwhelms their 
       lives. In awe of her clean well-groomed schoolmates, and 
       certain of her own intense ugliness, Pecola tries to make 
       herself disappear as she wishes fervently, desperately for
       the blue eyes of a white girl. In her afterward to this 
       novel, Morrison writes of the little girl she once knew: 
       "Beauty was not simply something to behold, it was 
       something one could do. The Bluest Eye was my effort to 
       say something about that; to say something about why she 
       had not, or possibly never would have, the experience of 
       what she possessed and also why she prayed for so radical 
       an alteration. Implicit in her desire was racial self-
       loathing. And twenty-years later I was still wondering 
       about how one learns that. Who told her? Who made her feel
       that it was better to be a freak that what she was? Who 
       had looked at her and found her so wanting, so small a 
       weight on the beauty scale? The novel pecks away at the 
       gaze that condemned her." 
650  0 African Americans|zOhio|vFiction. 
650  0 Girls|zOhio|vFiction. 
650  0 African American girls|vFiction. 
650  0 Color of eyes|vFiction. 
650  0 Bildungsromans|vFiction. 
650  0 Racism|vFiction. 
650  0 Race discrimination|vFiction. 
650  7 Racism.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01086616 
650  7 Color of eyes.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00868592 
650  7 Bildungsromans.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00831688 
650  7 African American girls.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00799183 
650  7 African Americans.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00799558 
650  7 Girls.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00942866 
651  0 Ohio|vFiction. 
651  7 Ohio.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01205075 
655  7 Fiction.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01423787 
655  7 Fiction.|2lcgft 
830  0 Essential editions. 
994    C0|bCKE 
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