Nobel prize-winning author of Beloved,Toni Morrison's debut novel 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. At once intimate and expansive,unsparing in its truth-telling,The Bluest Eye shows how the past savagely defines the present.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099759911Number of pages: 240Weight: 170 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 15 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'Not only a story but an awe-inspiring poem that confronts beauty itself.'- The Guardian
'So charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry'- The 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'- The Washington Post
'The Bluest Eye is a fine book,a lament for all starved and stunted children everywhere'- The 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
A true titan of twentieth-century American literature,Toni Morrison,who died in 2019 at the age of 88,was a pioneering author,editor and global icon. Over a long and distinguished career,her trailblazing novels became a mainstay of school syllabuses,making her a household name and earning her a slew of awards,including the Pulitzer prize,the Légion d'Honneur and a Presidential Medal of Freedom - presented to her in 2012 by Barack Obama. In one of a lifetime of barrier-breaking moments,she was the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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