Zadie Smith’s dazzlingly energetic and deeply human story about friendship, music and true identity, how they shape us and how we can survive them
On Beauty
Written by Zadie Smith
- Shortlisted
- The Man Booker Prize 2005
- Published by Hamish Hamilton
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Male lust and female friendship draw two families together - despite the gulf that exists between them - in Zadie Smith’s engaging satire
Professor Howard Belsey has done something stupid. And what is more it is the stupid ‘something’ that men his age seem programmed by cliché to act out. Exiled in his own home by the anger of his wife and the disapproval of his three kids, Howard is about to see his role in the family further undermined by the arrival in their East Coast college town of his nemesis, British academic Monty Kipps.
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Zadie Smith is a multi-award-winning author, who made a huge impact with her first novel, White Teeth
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