The Bluest Eye
  • Published: 15 June 2022
  • ISBN: 9781784876449
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $22.99

The Bluest Eye

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15 Jun 2022
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2 Apr 1999
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4 Sep 2014
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Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison's best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work. With a new introduction by Candice Carty-Williams.

Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison’s best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work.

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS, AUTHOR OF QUEENIE

Pecola Breedlove longs for blond hair and blue eyes, so that she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America. In the autumn of 1941, the marigolds in her garden will not bloom, and her wish will not come true. Pecola's life is about to change in other painful and devastating ways.

A powerful interrogation of what it means to conform to an idea of beauty, The Bluest Eye asks vital questions about race, class and gender and remains one of Toni Morrison’s most unforgettable works.
  • Published: 15 June 2022
  • ISBN: 9781784876449
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Toni Morrison

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.

portrait photo of Toni Morrison

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Mouth Full of Blood
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God Help the Child
Birth Of A Nation-Hood
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Praise for The Bluest Eye

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

Toni Morrison makes me believe in God. She makes me believe in a divine being, because luck and genetics don’t seem to come close to explaining her

Guardian

This story commands attention, for it contains one black girl's universe

Newsweek

A profoundly successful work of fiction... Taut and understated, harsh in its detachment, sympathetic in its truth...it is an experience

Detroit Free Press

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

Searing and haunting... [The Bluest Eye] is a unique piece of literature because it is both timeless and relevant

Bernice McFadden, author of SUGAR, Guardian