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Set on both sides of the Atlantic, Smith's third novel is a brilliant analysis of family life, the institution of marriage, intersections of the personal and the political, and an honest look at people's deceptions. Winner of the 2006 Orange Prize for fiction, another bestselling masterwork from the celebrated author of Swing Time and White Teeth In this sharp, engaging satire, beauty's only skin-deep, but funny cuts to the bone. -- Kirkus Reviews 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 wars--on both sides of the Atlantic--serve 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 Smith's reputation as a major literary talent.
WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE From the acclaimed author of Swing Time, White Teeth and Grand Union, discover a brilliantly funny and deeply mving story about love and family 'I didn't want to finish, I was enjoying it so much' Evening Standard 'Thrums wi
From acclaimed novelist John Vercher, a profoundly moving novel of what it means to be a father, a son, a writer, and a biracial American fighting to reconcile the past Reeling from the sudden death of his teenage son, our narrator receives a letter from an attorney: he has just inherited a plot of
A New York Times bestseller * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction * Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from North West London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On Beauty. Two brown girls dream
Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth , The Autograph Man , On Beauty , NW , and Swing Time , as well as two collections of essays, Changing My Mind and Feel Free . Zadie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002, and was listed as one of Granta 's 20 Best Young B
