Name: On Beauty
SKU: 1815439
Price: 742.00 TWD
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Author: Smith, Zadie
ISBN: 9780143037743

Type

Physical Book

Author

Zadie Smith

Publisher

Penguin

Year

2006

Language

English

Pages

464

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.1x14x2.8 cm

Weight

0.43 kg.

ISBN

0143037749

ISBN13

9780143037743

Edition No.

Synopsis "On Beauty "

Winner 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 lists from the New York Times to the San Francisco Chronicle, 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 political. Full of dead-on wit and relentlessly funny, this tour de force confirms Zadie Smith's reputation as a major literary talent.

Zadie Smith

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Zadie Smith (United Kingdom, 1975) is a British novelist and essayist born in London, daughter of a Jamaican mother and an English father. Her first novel, White Teeth (2000), catapulted her to international recognition and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, among other awards. Other notable works include On Beauty (a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction), NW, and Swing Time. Smith is a member of the Royal Society of Literature and a professor of creative writing at New York University.

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