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The Bluest Eye is the great American author and Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison s first novel, a powerful work about racism and privilege in the United States. That there have been and continue to be numerous attempts to ban it from American schools is testament to its accuracy. This is the rare first UK edition, published by Chatto and Windus in 1979. In Fine condition.

The Bluest Eye is the first novel written by Toni Morrison. It was published in 1970 and is set in Lorain, Ohio, Morrison's hometown. The story is about Pecola Breedlove, an African-American girl who prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be considered beautiful and gain the affection and acceptance of her community.