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On Beauty is a 2005 novel by British author Zadie Smith, loosely based on Howards End by E. M. Forster. The story follows the lives of a mixed-race British/American family living in the United States, addresses ethnic and cultural differences in both the USA and the UK, as well as the nature of beauty, and the clash between liberal ...
- Zadie Smith
- 2005
Jun 4, 2005 · On Beauty is the story of an interracial family living in the university town of Wellington, Massachusetts, whose misadventures in the culture wars-on both sides of the Atlantic-serve to skewer everything from family life to political correctness to the combustive collision between the personal and the political.
- (83K)
- 2005
- Zadie Smith
- Paperback
Aug 29, 2006 · Winner of the 2006 Orange Prize for fiction, another bestselling masterwork from the celebrated author of Swing Time and White Teeth. "In this sharp, engaging satire, beauty's only skin-deep, but funny cuts to the bone." —Kirkus Reviews.
- Zadie Smith
- $11.49
- Penguin Books
On Beauty is a contemporary campus novel that explores themes of race, class, and identity through the perspectives of two families, the Belseys and the Kipps. The novel is loosely based on Howards End by E.M. Forster and features a love triangle, a scandal, and a lot of humor.
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On Beauty is a hilarious, scathing, and emotionally profound novel of human aspiration and failure, an unfailingly perceptive portrait of a struggling marriage, and an empathetic depiction of adolescent struggle.
Jan 25, 2010 · How do you choose the work on which to spend your life? Why do you love the people you love? Do you really believe what you claim to? And what is the beautiful thing, and how far will you go to get it?
