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On Beauty
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  • Published: 6 February 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241994689
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $32.00

On Beauty

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Paperback
27 Nov 2020
Paperback
1 Oct 2020
Paperback
3 July 2006
EBook
3 July 2006
Audiobook
6 Feb 2020
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The bestselling, Booker shortlisted novel by one of Britain's greatest living novelists, now a Penguin Essential

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.
  • Published: 6 February 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241994689
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $32.00
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About the author

Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW, Swing Time and The Fraud; as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia; four collections of essays, Changing My Mind, Feel Free, Intimations and Dead and Alive; 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.

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Praise for On Beauty

The tale of a mixed-race British American family in conflict with another family of opposing sensibilities. As with all Smith's work, it's smart, funny and a masterclass in the complexities of identity

Luan Goldie, Guardian

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