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Smith, Z: On Beauty

Smith, Z: On Beauty: Waterstones Reading the 21st Century


en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 mai 2006
WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE

From the acclaimed author ofSwing Time, White TeethandGrand 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 with intellectual sass and know-how'Literary Review

'Filled with humour, generosity and contemporary sparkle'Daily Telegraph

'Satirical, wise and sexy'WashingtonPost
Why do we fall in love with the people we do? Why do we visit our mistakes on our children? What makes life truly beautiful?
Set between New England and London,On Beautyconcerns a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kipps - and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some searching questions about what life does to love. For the Belseys and the Kipps, the confusions - both personal and political - of our uncertain age are about to be brought close to home: right to the heart of family.
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ISBN-13: 9780141026664
ISBN-10: 0141026669
Pagini: 464
Dimensiuni: 113 x 180 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Seria Waterstones Reading the 21st Century

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

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, 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 and the Guardian First Book Award. On Beauty was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and NW was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.
Zadie Smith is currently a tenured professor of fiction at New York University and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is a regular contributor to the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books.

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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 with intellectual sass and know-how' Literary Review

'Filled with humour, generosity and contemporary sparkle' Daily Telegraph

'Satirical, wise and sexy' Washington Post
Why do we fall in love with the people we do? Why do we visit our mistakes on our children? What makes life truly beautiful?
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