On Beauty

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title On Beauty
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Zadie Smith
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:464
Dimensions(mm): Height 181,Width 111
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780241989166
ClassificationsDewey:823.914
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
Publication Date 23 July 2020
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The bestselling, Booker shortlisted novel by one of Britain's greatest living novelists, now a Penguin Essential 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 between New England and London, 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.

Author Biography

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.