{"works": [{"key": "/works/OL50565W"}], "title": "The Bluest Eye", "publishers": ["Plume"], "publish_date": "2000?", "key": "/books/OL32029797M", "type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "identifiers": {"paperback_swap": ["0452282195"], "amazon": ["0452282195"], "goodreads": ["5219"]}, "ocaid": "bluesteye0000morr_u4m8", "isbn_10": ["0452282195"], "isbn_13": ["9780452282193"], "lccn": ["94014448"], "oclc_numbers": ["1014048326"], "classifications": {}, "lc_classifications": ["PS3563.O8749B55 1994"], "pagination": "216p.", "notes": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "USA/CAN"}, "languages": [{"key": "/languages/eng"}], "number_of_pages": 216, "physical_format": "Paperback", "edition_name": "1st Plume Printing (37)", "publish_places": ["New York"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision. Set in the author's girlhood hometown of Lorain, Ohio, it tells the story of black, eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove. Pecola prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America. In the autumn of 1941, the year the marigolds in the Breedlove's garden do not blom, Pecola's life does change--in painful, devastating ways.\r\n\r\nWith it's vivid evocation of the fear and loneliness at the heart of a child's yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment, The Bluest Eye remains one of Toni Morrison's most powerful, unforgettable novels--and a significant work of American fiction.\r\n--back cover"}, "copyright_date": "1993", "covers": [10696290, -1], "source_records": ["bwb:9780452282193"], "latest_revision": 6, "revision": 6, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2021-03-10T19:20:49.052577"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-12-15T12:20:54.901887"}}