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The Bluest Eye
And she does it with a prose so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry.' New York Times 'The Bluest Eye is a fine book, a lament for all starved and stunted children everywhere.
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About The Bluest Eye
THE BLUEST EYE chronicles the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in 1940s Ohio: Pauline, Cholly, Sam and Pecola. Pecola, unlovely and unloved, prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged blond white schoolfellows. She becomes the fo
| Published: | 31 Jul 1999 |
| Pages: | 172 |
| Publisher: | Random House |
| ISBN 13: | 9780099759911 |
| ISBN 10: | 0099759918 |