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Summary:

Just outside of Boston, in the small college town of Wellington, lives a family that is anything byt typical. Liberated by education, complicated by race, and hobbled by self-delusion, they are about to stray onto the battleground that divides personl belief from political conviction. On Beauty is Zadie Smith's brilliant, hilarious send-up of the culture wars that define our age. -- [Publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Kipps and Belsey
• The anatomy lesson
• On beauty and being wrong.

Author/Creator:

Smith, Zadie , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Text in English.

Main Work:

On beauty: a novel [by Smith, Z.]

Subjects:

College teachers — Fiction

Boston (Mass.) — Fiction

Massachusetts — Fiction

Interracial marriage — Fiction

Domestic relations — Fiction

College teachers

Interracial marriage

Domestic relations

Massachusetts — Boston

Massachusetts

Genres:

Domestic fiction

Romance fiction

Fiction

General Notes:

Originally published in 2005.
Orange Prize for Fiction, 2006

Creator Demographics:

Women
British Jamaicans
English; New Yorkers (New York State)
Authors; Essayists; Novelists

Physical Description:

445 pages ; 22 cm

Call Numbers:

PR6069.M59 O5 2006b

ISBNs:

0143037749
9780143037743
9780141026664
0141026669

Other Standard Numbers:

International Article Number: 9780143037743

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2006043278

OCLC Numbers:

65521579