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Toni Morrison Box Set: The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Beloved
Toni Morrison
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, Beloved transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. This spellbinding novel tells the story of Sethe, a former slave who escapes to Ohio, but eighteen years later is still not free.
In The New York Times bestselling novel, The Bluest Eye, Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty and yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes, that she believes will allow her to finally fit in. Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife.
With Song of Solomon, Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as she follows Milkman Dead from his rustbelt city to the place of his family's origins, introducing an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized black world.
This beautifully designed slipcase will make the perfect holiday and perennial gift.
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Toni Morrison’s debut and widely banned novel is a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtly and grace.
Here, Morrison’s writing is “so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry” (The New York Times).
Listen to an Audio Clip from The Bluest Eye, read by
Toni Morrison
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Events
Honors and Awards
1977: National Book Critics Circle Award for Song of Solomon
1988: American Book Award for Beloved
1988: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Beloved
1993: Nobel Prize in Literature
1993: Commander of the Arts and Letters, Paris
1996: National Book Foundation's Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
2000: National Humanities Medal
2010: Officier de la Légion d'Honneur
2011: Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction
2012: Presidential Medal of Freedom
2014: Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award given by the National Book Critics Circle
2020: Designation of "Toni Morrison Day" in Ohio, to be celebrated annually on her birthday, February 18
2021: The Toni Morrison Achievement Award was established with the National Book Critics Circle
A Celebration of the Life of Toni Morrison
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