- Booker Prize 2005 · Shortlist
On Beauty
On Beauty
Zadie Smith (born 1975)
English editions
Written in EnglishOn Beauty
Penguin · United Kingdom · 23 July 2020 · Paperback · 464 pages
On Beauty
Hamish Hamilton · United Kingdom · 2005 · Hardcover · 445 pages
On Beauty
Penguin Press · United States · 2005 · 445 pages
On Beauty
Penguin Books · United States · 29 August 2006 · Paperback · 464 pages
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Howard Belsey, a professor, has made a foolish, clichéd mistake of the kind middle-aged men make, and now lives like an outcast at home, frozen out by his furious wife and his three disapproving children. Things get worse when his great rival, Monty Kipps, a British academic, moves with his family to the East Coast college town where the Belseys live. Shifting between New England and London, the novel follows the two quarrelling families through doomed love affairs and a friendship between two women that links them across everything that divides them. It asks why people love whom they love, and what parents hand down to their children.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Genres
- Family, Satire (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- United States, United Kingdom
- First published
- 2005
- Author's age
- 30 when first published
- ISBN
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9780241142936 (Hamish Hamilton, United Kingdom)
9781594200632 (Penguin Press, United States)
9780143037743 (Penguin Books, United States)
9780241989166 (Penguin, United Kingdom)
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