On Beauty

Name: On Beauty
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ISBN: 9780143037743

ISBN-10: 0143037749

ISBN-13: 9780143037743

Edition: 2006

Authors: Zadie Smith

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Winner of the 2006 Orange Prize for fiction and from the celebrated author of "White Teeth" comes another bestselling masterwork 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 warson both sides of the Atlanticserve 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…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 8/29/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English

Gregor von Rezzori(1914–1998) was a novelist, journalist, memoirist, screenwriter, and author of radio plays. His worksMemoirs of an Anti-SemiteandThe Snows of Yesteryearare published by NYRB Classics. Zadie Smithis the author of three novels, most recentlyOn Beauty, and the editor of the short-story anthologyThe Book of Other People. Philip Boehmis the author of numerous translations from Polish and German, including works by Franz Kafka, Ida Fink, and Christoph Hein.