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On Beauty

By Zadie Smith
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Publisher Description

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.

563 Reviews

3.5
Expressionless Face“This story had a GREAT ending! However, that amazing ending did not make up for the long walk to get there. The author kept adding and changing the POV we were reading from, and unfortunately for me, it didn't flow very well. I will read a different a Zadie Smith book in the future to give her work another try.”
Diverse charactersMulti-layered charactersEasy to readOriginal writingRealistic settingUnsatisfying plot
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Characters change and growDiverse charactersMulti-layered charactersBeautifully writtenDescriptive writingOriginal writingUnpredictableRealistic settingThought-provokingRacism

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