The Bluest Eye

BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OFBELOVED

Toni Morrisons 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 Eyeshows how the past savagely defines the present.

Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction

Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She is the author of many novels, includingThe Bluest Eye, Beloved(made into a major film),ParadiseandLove.She has also received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction.

"So precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry." New York Times