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On Beauty : A Novel by Zadie Smith, Peter Francis James, Adjoa Andoh, Philippe Aronson, Ana María de la Fuente Suárez is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Male lust and female friendship draw two families together - despite the gulf that exists between them - in Zadie Smith’s engaging satire.Professor Howard Belsey has done something stupid. And what is more, it is the stupid ‘something’ that men his age seem programmed by cliché to act out. Exiled in his own home by the anger of his wife and the disapproval of his three kids, Howard is about to see his role in the family further undermined by the arrival in their East Coast college town of his nemesis, British academic Monty Kipps."Her new novel is masterly on almost any level — impressive in its command of every register of English, never tiresome despite its length and astonishingly sympathetic to every sort of human frailty ... centre stage stands the Belsey family, arguing, slamming doors, increasingly beleaguered, confused and heartbroken ... As the novel progresses, Smith smoothly shifts into and out of the minds of the various Belsey's, as they sigh, quip and agonize against the backdrop of Wellington classes, parties, lectures and faculty meetings ... At times she can be a little extravagant in her imagery...but her overall tone suggests a kindly Voltairean tolerance for hum

Who reads On Beauty : A Novel?

Author

Zadie Smith, Peter Francis James, Adjoa Andoh, Philippe Aronson, Ana María de la Fuente Suárez

Publisher

Penguin Group USA

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780739466025

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.69 / 5 (45,354 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14