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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Plume
Publication date
September 6, 2005
Pages
215
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reissue
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780452287068
ISBN-10
0452287065
Dimensions
0.75 by 5.50 by 8.25 in.
Weight
0.55 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$15.95
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
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 intenseugliness, 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.'
Editions
Hardcover
With Harold Bloom (other contributor) |
Updated edition from Chelsea House Pub (September 1, 2007)
9780791096154 | details & prices | 247 pages | 7.25 × 6.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $45.00
from Alfred a Knopf Inc (April 1, 2000)
9780375411557 | details & prices | 215 pages | 5.25 × 7.75 × 1.00 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $24.95
About: Relates the story of Pecola Breedlove, an eleven-year-old Black girl growing up in an America that values blue-eyed blondes, and the tragedy that results from her longing to be accepted
About: Relates the story of Pecola Breedlove, an eleven-year-old Black girl growing up in an America that values blue-eyed blondes, and the tragedy that results from her longing to be accepted
from Random House Inc (April 1, 2000)
9789990059717 | details & prices | 5.50 × 7.75 × 1.00 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $0.02
This edition also contains The Bluest Eye, The Bluest Eye
This edition also contains The Bluest Eye, The Bluest Eye
Large print edition from G K Hall & Co (December 1, 1999)
9780783888156 | details & prices | 256 pages | 6.25 × 9.75 × 1.25 in. | 1.25 lbs | List price $29.95
Largeprint edition from Chivers (June 1, 1999)
9780754040422 | details & prices | 256 pages | List price $28.95
Largeprint edition from Chivers (June 1, 1999)
9780754040439 | details & prices | 256 pages | List price $28.95
Reprint edition from Alfred a Knopf Inc (December 1, 1993)
9780679433736 | details & prices | 5.25 × 8.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.80 lbs | List price $24.00
Paperback
Reprint edition from Vintage Books (May 8, 2007)
9780307278449 | details & prices | 206 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $14.00
About: A new edition of the first novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author relates the story of Pecola Breedlove, an eleven-year-old Black girl growing up in an America that values blue-eyed blondes, and the tragedy that results because of her longing to be accepted.
About: A new edition of the first novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author relates the story of Pecola Breedlove, an eleven-year-old Black girl growing up in an America that values blue-eyed blondes, and the tragedy that results because of her longing to be accepted.
The price comparison is for this edition
Reissue edition from Plume (September 6, 2005)
9780452287068 | details & prices | 215 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $15.95
About: 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.
About: 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.
from Plume (April 1, 2000)
9780452282193 | details & prices | 5.50 × 8.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $14.00
About: The story of Pecola Breedlove profiles an eleven-year-old Black girl growing up in an America that values blue-eyed blondes and the tragedy that results from her longing to be accepted.
About: The story of Pecola Breedlove profiles an eleven-year-old Black girl growing up in an America that values blue-eyed blondes and the tragedy that results from her longing to be accepted.
Reprint edition from Plume (September 1, 1994)
9780452273054 | details & prices | 5.50 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.35 lbs | List price $14.00
About: The story of Pecola Breedlove profiles an eleven-year-old Black girl growing up in an America that values blue-eyed blondes and the tragedy that results from her longing to be accepted
About: The story of Pecola Breedlove profiles an eleven-year-old Black girl growing up in an America that values blue-eyed blondes and the tragedy that results from her longing to be accepted
With London College of Information Technology (other contributor), Demi S. Macdonald |
from New Amer Library (August 1, 1994)
9780451183675 | details & prices | List price $5.99
This edition also contains The Art of Media Security
This edition also contains The Art of Media Security
Reprint edition from Pocket Books (February 1, 1991); titled "Bluest Eye"
9780671742928 | details & prices | 4.25 × 6.75 × 0.25 in. | 0.15 lbs | List price $5.50
About: An impoverished black girl relates the struggles which attended her growth to maturity in rural Ohio
About: An impoverished black girl relates the struggles which attended her growth to maturity in rural Ohio
Miscellaneous
from Vintage Books (July 24, 2007)
9780307386588 | details & prices | List price $14.00
This edition also contains The Bluest Eye, The Bluest Eye
This edition also contains The Bluest Eye, The Bluest Eye
Cassette/Spoken Word
With Ruby Dee (other contributor) |
from Random House (March 1, 1994)
9780679434740 | details & prices | 4.50 × 7.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.35 lbs | List price $17.00
About: An impoverished black girl relates the struggles which attended her growth to maturity in rural Ohio.
About: An impoverished black girl relates the struggles which attended her growth to maturity in rural Ohio.
With Peter Francis James (other contributor) |
from Recorded Books (April 1, 1970)
9780788743542 | details & prices | List price $51.00
Reinforced
from Demco Media (September 1, 1994)
9780606069403 | details & prices | 5.25 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $23.50
About: The story of Pecola Breedlove profiles an eleven-year-old Black girl growing up in an America that values blue-eyed blondes and the tragedy that results from her longing to be accepted
About: The story of Pecola Breedlove profiles an eleven-year-old Black girl growing up in an America that values blue-eyed blondes and the tragedy that results from her longing to be accepted
Prebinding
from Turtleback Books (April 1, 2000); titled "Bluest Eye"
9781417664665 | details & prices | 5.25 × 8.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.62 lbs | List price $25.75
About: The story of Pecola Breedlove profiles an eleven-year-old Black girl growing up in an America that values blue-eyed blondes and the tragedy that results from her longing to be accepted.
About: The story of Pecola Breedlove profiles an eleven-year-old Black girl growing up in an America that values blue-eyed blondes and the tragedy that results from her longing to be accepted.
from Turtleback Books (October 1, 1999)
9780808562825 | details & prices | 5.50 × 8.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $25.75
About: The story of Pecola Breedlove profiles an eleven-year-old Black girl growing up in an America that values blue-eyed blondes and the tragedy that results from her longing to be accepted
About: The story of Pecola Breedlove profiles an eleven-year-old Black girl growing up in an America that values blue-eyed blondes and the tragedy that results from her longing to be accepted
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