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.
