The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
A novel that immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family - Pauline, Cholly, Sam and Pecola - in post-Depression 1940s Ohio. Unlovely and unloved, Pecola prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged white schoolfellows.
Not only a story but an awe-inspiring poem that confronts beauty itself* Guardian *
So charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry * New York Times *
I imagine if our greatest American novelist, William Faulkner, were alive today he would herald Toni Morrison's emergence as a kindred spirit... Discovering a writer like Toni Morrison is the rarest of pleasures * Washington Post *
The Bluest Eye is a fine book, a lament for all starved and stunted children everywhere * Daily Telegraph *
Morrison's style rivets the reader...her synaesthetic, often rhythmic, even chanting prose recalls both Faulkner and Emily Dickinson * The Times Literary Supplement *
So charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry * New York Times *
I imagine if our greatest American novelist, William Faulkner, were alive today he would herald Toni Morrison's emergence as a kindred spirit... Discovering a writer like Toni Morrison is the rarest of pleasures * Washington Post *
The Bluest Eye is a fine book, a lament for all starved and stunted children everywhere * Daily Telegraph *
Morrison's style rivets the reader...her synaesthetic, often rhythmic, even chanting prose recalls both Faulkner and Emily Dickinson * The Times Literary Supplement *
Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She was the author of many novels, including The Bluest Eye, Sula, Beloved, Paradise and Love. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honour, in 2012 by Barack Obama. Toni Morrison died on 5 August 2019 at the age of eighty-eight.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099759911 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099759918 |
| Title | The Bluest Eye |
| Author | Toni Morrison |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1999-03-04 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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