The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature.It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove—a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed childre...

Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times.

Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

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"The book is just completely objectionable, from language to the content," said Holtzclaw, who points out the novel includes depictions of incest and child molestation.