The Bluest Eye
Edition: 5th printing
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 1979
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780671823238
Copyright date: 1970
Description: Each night Pecola prayed for blue eyes.

In her eleven years, no one had ever noticed Pecola. But with blue eyes, she thought, everything would be different. She would be so pretty that her parents would stop fighting. Her father would stop drinking. Her brother would stop running away. If only she could be beautiful. If only people would look at her. 

When someone finally did, it was her father, drunk. He raped her. Soon she would bear his child...

(back cover)