On Beauty
Author: Smith, Zadie
ISBN: 9780241989166
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 27 Nov 2020
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback / softback
The bestselling, Booker shortlisted novel by one of Britain's greatest living novelists, now a Penguin Essential
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 Beauty concerns 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.
ISBN: 9780241989166
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 27 Nov 2020
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback / softback
The bestselling, Booker shortlisted novel by one of Britain's greatest living novelists, now a Penguin Essential
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 Beauty concerns 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.
