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Title	:	On Beauty
Author	:	Zadie Smith
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 445 pages
Published	:	August 29th 2006 by Penguin Books (first published June 4th 2005)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. Novels

On Beauty

Zadie Smith

Paperback | Pages: 445 pages

Rating: 3.73 | 62192 Users | 4580 Reviews

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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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Original Title:	On Beauty
ISBN:	0143037749 (ISBN13: 9780143037743)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Howard Belsey, Kiki Belsey, Victoria Kipps, Jerome Belsey
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee (2005), Orange Prize for Fiction (2006), Somerset Maugham Award (2006), Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (2006), Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize Nominee for Comic Fiction (2006) Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book in South Asia and Europe (2006)

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3.5 starsOn Beauty by Zadie Smith is 442 pages. A very, very slow 442 pages in which you need to be fully engaged and present while reading. This is not a book you can breeze through, as the book would mention of certain characters: it is intellectual. There is no doubt that Smith is a talented writer, I just struggled a bit in establishing a reading pace with this one.On Beauty follows the Belsey family: an interracial couple, Howard and Kiki, married thirty years living in an upper middle

Smith accomplishes much in this, her third novel. "Autograph Man" was sadly not memorable enough & "White Teeth", the novel that quickly turned her into the valedictorian of all modern young writers, was epic but also did not engage me too much. "On Beauty" is exceptionally readable, relevant/modern, complicated, witty. She's honed her skills, & one must be a 'lil jealous.Like I told G. just yesterday: it contains that Middlesexian moment of profound awe. Modern novels, at least those

I find myself liking Zadie Smith more and more. The blurb about this wasnt immediately promising; another novel about a middle-aged academic having an affair resulting in a family and personal crisis. However, there is much more going on. Smith herself has acknowledged that it is an Homage to Howards End. The author creates a multitude of voices, all interesting in their own right. It is set in a fictional American university town, Wellington (a thinly disguised Harvard). The novel revolves



There was a certain amount of hype surrounding this book, and on the front cover, it is said to be a funny and clever book. Well, I'll tell you here and now, don't believe a single word of any of it. Get out while you still can! This book is a prime example of one I'd swiftly throw out of the window without looking back, but unfortunately for me, I borrowed this from my Mother, so today she may gladly have it back.Since this is my first Zadie Smith book, I must say, we haven't gotten off to a

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When I say I am not a people person, I mean I can find five reasons to hate someone, anyone, within ten minutes of meeting them in real life. As consequence of this and the desire to not let overwhelming anger ruin my life, I am always putting myself in the other's place, years of which have both calmed me down and sharpened my analysis to the quick. However much I initially dislike you, I will always, always, always respect you, and if you're not a complete and utter asshole and/or hypocrite