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On Beauty
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On Beauty

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Winner of the 2006 Women’s Prize for Fiction

Zadie Smith’s On Beauty is a funny, powerful and moving story about love and family

Why do we fall in love with the people we do? Why do we visit our mistakes on our children? What makes life truly beautiful?

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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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
3 July 2006
Pages
464
ISBN
9780141019451

Winner of the 2006 Women’s Prize for Fiction

Zadie Smith’s On Beauty is a funny, powerful and moving story about love and family

Why do we fall in love with the people we do? Why do we visit our mistakes on our children? What makes life truly beautiful?

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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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
3 July 2006
Pages
464
ISBN
9780141019451