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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 follows the Belsey family: an interracial couple, Howard and Kiki, married thirty years living in an upper middle class town with their three children, Jerome, Zora and Levi.
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- 2005
- Zadie Smith
- Paperback
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.
Aug 29, 2006 · 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.
- Zadie Smith
- $11.49
- Penguin Books
A novel about a family of academics and their interracial relationships, scandals, and conflicts. The plot follows the Belsey family, who are white and Black, and their rivals, the Kipps family, who are white and Caribbean, as they navigate love, work, and identity in Boston and London.
Set in New England mainly and London partly, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families—the Belseys and the Kippses—and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some searching questions about what life does to love.
On Beauty by Zadie Smith is an intricate study of love in all of its manifestations, challenges, and complications. Smith explores love for one's partner in good times and...
