On beauty : a novel

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Title:

On beauty : a novel

Author:

Smith, Zadie.

ISBN:

9780141019451

Personal Author:

Smith, Zadie.

Publication Information:

London : Penguin, 2006.

Physical Description:

445 pages ; 20 cm

General Note:

Originally published: London : Hamish Hamilton, 2005.

Contents:

Kipps and Belsey -- The anatomy lesson -- On beauty and being wrong.

Abstract:

When Howard Belsey's oldest son Jerome falls for Victoria, the stunning daughter of the right-wing Monty Kipps, both families find themselves thrown together, enacting a cultural and personal war against each other.

Subject Term:

English fiction -- United States.

Intergenerational relations -- United States -- Fiction.

Race relations -- Fiction.

English fiction. (OCoLC)fst00910817

Intergenerational relations. (OCoLC)fst00976251

Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509

Geographic Term:

United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155

Genre:

Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787

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Summary

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.