On Beauty

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WINNER OF THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZESUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERFrom the acclaimed author of Swing Time, White Teeth and Grand Union, discover a brilliantly funny and deeply moving story about love and familyWhy 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 between New England and London, 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. For the Belseys and the Kipps, the confusions – both personal and political – of our uncertain age are about to be brought close to home: right to the heart of family.’I didn’t want to finish, I was enjoying it so much’ Evening Standard’Thrums with intellectual sass and know-how’ Literary Review’Filled with humour, generosity and contemporary sparkle’ Daily Telegraph ‘Satirical, wise and sexy’ Washington Post

Additional information

Weight 0.252 kg
Dimensions 2.9 × 11.3 × 18 cm
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Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

464

Publisher

Year Published

2006-5-4

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

0141026669

About The Author

Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time; as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia; three collections of essays, Changing My Mind, Feel Free and Intimations; 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. The Fraud is her first historical novel.

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

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