Urn:oclc:62085405 Scandate 20100127044335 Scanner academic comedy of multicultural manners finds Smith recapturing the sparkle of White Teeth (2000).įollowing her sophomore slump with The Autograph Man (2002), the British author returns to biting, frequently hilarious form with a novel that concerns two professors who are intellectual enemies but whose families become intertwined. OL15148218W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 92.37 Pages 476 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1845058631 Urn:lcp:onbeautynovel00smit:epub:a99a2ec1-8ac5-4018-92f0-aeb26efdc0de Extramarc The Indiana University Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier onbeautynovel00smit Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t5gb2qr5p Isbn 1594200637Ħ1396956 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition

It is also, as you might expect, very funny indeedĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 23:28:06 Boxid IA109604 Boxid_2 CH104101 Camera Canon 5D City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary External-identifier 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once was. 1: Kipps and Belsey - 2: Anatomy lesson - 3: On beauty and being wrong - Author's noteįrom the Publisher: 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.

On beauty by zadie smith