An edition of On Beauty: a novel (2005)

On beauty

a novel

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An edition of On Beauty: a novel (2005)

On beauty

a novel

  • 3.58 ·
  • 12 Ratings
  • 46 Want to read
  • 3 Currently reading
  • 16 Have read

From the Publisher: Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering professor at Wellington, a liberal New England arts college. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once was. Their three children passionately pursue their own paths: Levi quests after authentic blackness, Zora believes that intellectuals can redeem everybody, and Jerome struggles to be a believer in a family of strict atheists. Faced with the oppressive enthusiasms of his children, Howard feels that the first two acts of his life are over and he has no clear plans for the finale. Or the encore. Then Jerome, Howard's older son, falls for Victoria, the stunning daughter of the right-wing icon Monty Kipps, and the two families find themselves thrown together in a beautiful corner of America, enacting a cultural and personal war against the background of real wars that they barely register. An infidelity, a death, and a legacy set in motion a chain of events that sees all parties forced to examine the unarticulated assumptions which underpin their lives. 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? Set on both sides of the Atlantic, Zadie Smith's third novel is a brilliant analysis of family life, the institution of marriage, intersections of the personal and political, and an honest look at people's deceptions. It is also, as you might expect, very funny indeed.

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Penguin Press
Pages
445

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On Beauty
August 29, 2006, Penguin Books
in English
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On beauty: a novel
2006, Thorndike Press
in English
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On beauty: a novel
2006, Howes, Clipper
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On Beauty
2006, Penguin Books
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On beauty: a novel
2005, Penguin Press
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On Beauty
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On beauty: a novel
2005, Penguin Press
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On Beauty
September 13, 2005, Penguin Press HC, The
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New York

Table of Contents

1: Kipps and Belsey
2: Anatomy lesson
3: On beauty and being wrong
Author's note.

Edition Notes

Genre
Fiction, Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.914
Library of Congress
PR6069.M59 O5 2005c

The Physical Object

Pagination
445 p. ;
Number of pages
445

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24215771M
Internet Archive
onbeautynovel00smit
ISBN 10
1594200637
ISBN 13
9781594200632
LCCN
2006272543
OCLC/WorldCat
61396956

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