Julius Lester
wrote a review of this novel, which he judged to be wonderful and beautiful, for Life. The magazine did not print his review because it thought the book not important enough...
Literary responses
Toni Morrison
Sarah Blackburn
, who now suspected The Bluest Eye of having been over-praised, nevertheless celebrated TM
as someone who really knows how to clank a sentence, and whose dialogue is so compressed and life-like that...
