Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times.
Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She is the author of many novels, including The Bluest Eye, Beloved (made into a major film), Paradise and Love. She has also received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction.
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
*Guardian*
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 *
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