The Bluest Eye (Paperback)

'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