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On Beauty

Zadie Smith

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English
Penguin Books Ltd
01 October 2020
On Beauty by Zadie Smith, author of the prize-winning White Teeth, is a funny, powerful and moving story about love and family.

Set in New England mainly and London partly, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kipps - and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some searching questions about what life does to love. For the Belseys and the Kipps, the confusions - both personal and political - of our uncertain age are about to be brought close to home- right to the heart of family.
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Imprint:   Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   Open market ed
Dimensions:   Height: 180mm,  Width: 113mm,  Spine: 29mm
Weight:   252g
ISBN:   9780141026664
ISBN 10:   0141026669
Pages:   464
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time; as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia; three collections of essays, Changing My Mind, Feel Free and Intimations; a collection of short stories, Grand Union; and the play, The Wife of Willesden, adapted from Chaucer. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People. Zadie Smith was born in north-west London, where she still lives. The Fraud is her first historical novel.

Reviews for On Beauty

The tale of a mixed-race British American family in conflict with another family of opposing sensibilities. As with all Smith's work, it's smart, funny and a masterclass in the complexities of identity -- Luan Goldie * Guardian *


  • Short-listed for Orange Youth Panel Prize 2010
  • Shortlisted for Orange Youth Panel Prize 2010.
  • Winner of Orange Prize for Fiction.
  • Winner of Somerset Maugham Award 2006
  • Winner of Somerset Maugham Award 2006.

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