Bluest Eye (Morrison)

Book Reviews 
Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye is an inquiry into the reasons why beauty gets wasted in this country. The beauty in this case is black. [Ms. Morrison's prose is] so precise, so faithful to speech, and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry…I have said 'Poetry,' but The Bluest Eye is also history, sociology, folklore, nightmare, and music.
John Leonard - New York Times


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