On Beauty
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (642 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0670045276 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 445 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Zadie Smith's On Beauty is a funny, powerful and moving story about love and family. "Delightfully entertainingfilled with humour, generosity and contemporary sparkle." (Alex Clark, Daily Telegraph). 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. "A triumph, Smith's comedy shines." (Daily Mail). 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 in New England mainly and London partly, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kipps - and a clutch of doomed affairs. "My novel of the yearDelicious." (Liz Jones, Evening Standard). "Heartstopping." (The Times Literary Supplement). It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some searching questions about what life does to love. "The novel I didn't want to finish, I was enjoying it so much." (John Sutherland, Evening Standard). "Satirical, wise and sexy." (Washington Post). "Ambitious, hugely impressive
Disappointing Heather Labbe After having read "White Teeth" a few years ago, I was anticipating another novel of similar caliber. What a disappointment!While she acknowledges up front that it is written as an hommage to E.M. Forster- the storyline is needlessly convoluted in order to mirror the plot of "Howard's End". What's worse are the underdeveloped, frustratingly shallow and across the board uninteresting characters- at the end of the book the reader. All is fair in love and academia Julius Kusuma It is difficult to write a review of this third novel of Zadie Smith without making a comparison to her bestselling, freshman attempt "White Teeth". I was captivated by "White Teeth"'s sometime caricature-ish portrayal of the culturally and ethnically diverse cast of characters: some of them take themselves too seriously, some of them don't think much of themselves or of their surroundings, but in the author made even the most . Five Stars Amazon Customer I love this book!!!
From this raw material, Smith has fashioned a superb book, her best to date. Indeed, Forster's advice, "Only connect," is lost on this group. Son Michael is a bit of a Monty clone and daughter Victoria is not at all what Daddy thinks she is. This family has no secrets--at least not for long. They are thrown into further conflict when Jerome leaves Wellington to get away from the discovery of his father's affair, lands on the Kipps' doorstep, falls for Victoria and mistakes what he has going with her for love. She has a great time exposing everyone's clay feet. The end result is a story for the 21st century, told with a perfect ear for everything: gangsta street talk; academic posturing, both British and American; down-home black Floridian straight talk; and sassy, profane kids, both black and white. She wafts over all proceedings, never really connecting with anyone. Then, Kipps is granted