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Toni Morrison Box Set: The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Beloved

Toni Morrison Box Set: The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Beloved

Toni Morrison

A box set of Toni Morrison's principal works, featuring The Bluest Eye (her first novel), Beloved (Pulitzer Prize winner), and Song of Solomon (National Book Critics Award winner).

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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The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

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

Toni Morrison

About Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison is the author of eleven novels and three essay collections. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.

Photo © Deborah Feingold via Getty Images.

Events

Feb 18 2025 (Tue)
ThirdSpace Action Lab, Cleveland, OH
Toni Morrison Community Reading
Literary Cleveland and ThirdSpace Action Lab will partner this Toni Morrison Day to host a free in-person community reading at ThirdSpace Action Lab. Featured readers will share special tributes to the author, followed by an open mic during which program attendees can share readings from Morrison’s work and original writings influenced by Morrison.
6:00 PM EST
Feb 26 2025 (Wed)
Virtual
The Bluest Eye: Banned Books Book Club Conversation
Join the Banned Books Book Club's virtual conversation to discuss The Bluest Eye & learn how to defend banned and challenged books in your community.
7:00 PM EST
May 7 2025 (Wed)
Norman Rockwell Museum
Readings at Rockwell: Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif” read by Sandra Seoane-Seri
In partnership with The Mount, the Norman Rockwell Museum presents Readings at Rockwell, featuring local actors reading stories by writers highlighted in Anita Kunz’s exhibition Original Sisters.
5:00 PM EST

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

Contact

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Permissions for use of the papers: boatman@princeton.edu

Publicity: Todd Doughty, tdoughty@penguinrandomhouse.com

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