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On Beauty is a 2005 novel by British author Zadie Smith, loosely based on Howards End by E. M. Forster. The story follows the lives of a mixed-race British/American family living in the United States, addresses ethnic and cultural differences in both the USA and the UK, as well as the nature of beauty, and the clash between liberal and conservative academic values.
4 juin 2005 · 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 ...
On Beauty Summary. Jerome is a student at Brown doing an internship abroad in London, and while he’s there, he stays with the family of Monty Kipps, a deeply conservative Rembrandt scholar who is the rival of Jerome’s father, Howard Belsey. Jerome is infatuated with the Kippses’ seeming closeness, which they credit to their Caribbean ...
29 août 2006 · Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time, as well as three collections of essays, Changing My Mind, Feel Free and Intimations, and a collection of short stories, Grand Union. White Teeth won multiple awards, including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award ...
About On Beauty. One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyWinner 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 ...
On Beauty takes place in the early 2000s when George W. Bush was president of the United States and Tony Blair was prime minister of England. Many of Howard Belsey and Monty Kipps’s debates over liberal versus conservative values are inspired by real issues that universities faced at that time and continue to face now.
13 sept. 2005 · ‘On Beauty’ sounds like the title of a philosophical or academic essay, certainly relevant to the setting of most of the novel. Simply ‘Beauty’ or ‘Beauty and Morality’ would echo those titles from Austen, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy (‘Persuasion,’ ‘Sense and Sensibility,’ ‘Crime and Punishment,’ ‘War and Peace’) from authors unhesitant to hitch their novels to these ...
