Instant Classics for the Modern Reader
A wildly ambitious novel, a beyond-brave memoir, and an expansive modern history: We loved them from the first page, and we’d like to re-introduce them to the Aesthetes.
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The Bluest Eye
By Toni Morrison
205 pages;
Plume/Penguin Putnam
With its vivid evocation of the feat and loneliness at the
heart of a child's yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment, The Bluest Eye
remains one of Toni Morrison's most powerful, unforgettable novels—and a
significant work of American fiction.
Featured in Oprah's Book Club 2000
Published 11/04/2010
