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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 and ...
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.
In Chapter 5 of On Beauty, an anonymous “feckless novelist on a visiting fellowship” sneaks out early from a boring meeting being led by the dean. Zadie Smith was herself a visiting novelist at Harvard, which bears several similarities to Wellington, including its location. A Literary Family.
About On Beauty. Winner of the 2006 Orange Prize for fiction, another bestselling masterwork from the celebrated author ofSwing TimeandWhite Teeth Having hit bestseller lists from the New York Times to the San Francisco Chronicle, this wise, hilarious novel reminds us why Zadie Smith has rocketed to literary stardom.
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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.
Jan 24, 2017 · On Beauty. Zadie Smith. Penguin, Jan 24, 2017 - Fiction - 464 pages. In this loose retelling of Howard's End, Zadie Smith considers the big questions: Why do we fall in love with the...
