Summary
Zadie Smith’s On Beauty is a funny, powerful, and moving story about love and family.
Why do we fall in love with the people we do? Why do we visit our mistakes on our children? What makes life truly beautiful?
Set in New England mainly and London partly, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families – the Belseys and the Kipps – and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some searching questions about what life does to love…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141019451 |
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| ISBN-10: | 014101945X |
| Author: | Zadie Smith |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 3 July 2006 |
| Weight: | 326g |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 130mm x 197mm |
| Audience Age: | 14-18 |
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Critics Review
The tale of a mixed-race British American family in conflict with another family of opposing sensibilities. As with all Smith’s work, it’s smart, funny and a masterclass in the complexities of identity – Luan Goldie * Guardian *
Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW, Swing Time and The Fraud; as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia; four collections of essays, Changing My Mind, Feel Free, Intimations and Dead and Alive; a collection of short stories, Grand Union; and the play, The Wife of Willesden, adapted from Chaucer. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People. Zadie Smith was born in north-west London, where she still lives.
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