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Original Title:	On Beauty
ISBN:	0143037749 (ISBN13: 9780143037743)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Howard Belsey, Kiki Belsey, Victoria Kipps, Jerome Belsey
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee (2005), Orange Prize for Fiction (2006), Somerset Maugham Award (2006), Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (2006), Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize Nominee for Comic Fiction (2006) Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book in South Asia and Europe (2006)

On Beauty

Zadie Smith

Paperback | Pages: 445 pages

Rating: 3.73 | 62192 Users | 4580 Reviews

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Title	:	On Beauty
Author	:	Zadie Smith
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 445 pages
Published	:	August 29th 2006 by Penguin Books (first published June 4th 2005)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. Novels

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Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering professor at Wellington, a liberal New England arts college. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once was. Their three children passionately pursue their own paths: Levi quests after authentic blackness, Zora believes that intellectuals can redeem everybody, and Jerome struggles to be a believer in a family of strict atheists. Faced with the oppressive enthusiasms of his children, Howard feels that the first two acts of his life are over and he has no clear plans for the finale. Or the encore.

Then Jerome, Howard's older son, falls for Victoria, the stunning daughter of the right-wing icon Monty Kipps, and the two families find themselves thrown together in a beautiful corner of America, enacting a cultural and personal war against the background of real wars that they barely register. An infidelity, a death, and a legacy set in motion a chain of events that sees all parties forced to examine the unarticulated assumptions which underpin their lives. How do you choose the work on which to spend your life? Why do you love the people you love? Do you really believe what you claim to? And what is the beautiful thing, and how far will you go to get it?

Set on both sides of the Atlantic, Zadie Smith's third novel is a brilliant analysis of family life, the institution of marriage, intersections of the personal and political, and an honest look at people's deceptions. It is also, as you might expect, very funny indeed.

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I was deeply displeased with this book. I can't believe I actually finished it; I liked neither the characters nor the language nor the style. I only read it because I got it for free (found it on the street in a pile of other middling titles), but though that excuses my starting it, it does not at all excuse my slogging through, stubbornly determined, all the way to the end. The truth is this: I was too lazy to figure out what to read next, which is incredibly idiotic, so I deserved what I got.

The truth in this quote sends shivers down my spine. It's so real, like all of Smith's writing: Stop worrying about your identity and concern yourself with the people you care about, ideas that matter to you, beliefs you can stand by, tickets you can run on. Intelligent humans make those choices with their brain and hearts and they make them alone. The world does not deliver meaning to you. You have to make it meaningful...and decide what you want and need and must do. Its a tough, unimaginably

Overall my impression is that Zadie Smith is a nice person, but putting her book in my hands is a bit like putting two boxers of completely different weight categories into the same ring. She came at me quick with dancing feet and rapid blows that I took coolly, after four hundred and forty pages she punched herself out and collapsed exhausted against the ropes. But she seemed really nice.I saw that On Beauty is meant to be an homage to Howard's End, naturally I labour under the mild

This was a slow read for me. I'm not actually a particularly cerebral person, so I got bogged down in the parts about academic life. But I enjoyed the people in the story. A lot of them were supremely unlikable, but as was once pointed out to me, you don't necessarily want everyone in your fiction to be likable. Kiki is the character who resonated the most with me. I'll definitely read more by Zadie Smith.

I think On Beauty is brilliant. I loved the extra layer of meaning that my reading of E.M. Forster's Howards End provided -- but I don't think it's necessary to do background reading to enjoy this novel. The characters are "messy," as Zadie Smith would say -- most of them make a lot of mistakes, but, for the most part, you love them, or sympathize with them for all of their deficiencies. It's a book with many layers, which is just the kind of fiction I love the most!Zadie Smith has experience in

Before we talk about Zadie Smith, lets talk about me first. Here is something you should know I was a serious book-worm up until I turned 16 (more or less) at which point I lost all interest in anything that wasnt parties, boys, alcohol, drugs or sex. There, I said it. For the next five years my brain didnt see much action (I somehow managed to finish high school and got accepted into the University of Warsaw but generally I found education a big distraction to my social life). I was about 21

About a third of the way through I wasn't sure I wanted to know any more about the Belsey or the Kipps families so I ended up reading heaps of other books while this sat waiting for me to return. The ending was strong and had a dash of drama. Not quite as good as White Teeth but better than Swing Time. A gifted author, I need to read her other books.