On Beauty
Author(s): Zadie Smith
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. 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.
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Winner of Orange Prize 2006 and Somerset Maugham Award 2006. Shortlisted for British Book Awards: Writer of the Year 2006 and Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2005 and Orange Youth Panel Prize 2010.
Zadie Smith is an English essayist, author, and professor. She has won (among other awards) the Langston Hughes Medal, the Bodley Medal, the James Tait Black Memorial prize, and a Grammy as a featured artist on Jon Batiste's 2022 Album of the Year We Are. Her work explores love, race, and identity.
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- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : November 2006
- : books
Special Fields
- : Zadie Smith
- : Paperback