On Beauty: A Novel

On Beauty: A Novel

Zadie Smith (Author)

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One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

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

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. 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. Full of dead-on wit and relentlessly funny, this tour de force confirms Zadie Smith's reputation as a major literary talent.
Product details
ASIN : B000PC0SKU
Publisher : Penguin Books (September 13, 2005)
Publication date : September 13, 2005
Language : English
File size : 905 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
Print length : 473 pages
Best Sellers Rank: #46,958 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
#14 in Literary Satire Fiction
#37 in Black & African American Literary Fiction
#55 in British & Irish Literary Fiction
Customer Reviews: 4.1
2,675 ratings



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