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Book Description
Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering professor at Wellington, a liberal New England arts college. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once was. Their threeContinue
Critics
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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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Howard's folly
On Beauty by Zadie Smith 432pp, Hamish Hamilton, £16.99 Among the many tasks Zadie Smith sets herself in her ambitious, hugely impressive new novel is that of finding a style at once flexible enough to give voice to the multitude of different worlds ... (read full critics)
guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
13 Reviews
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Tracy W said on Apr 12, 2007 | Add your feedback
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3 people find this helpful




Reading On Beauty
Zadie Smith's On Beauty is a pleasurable read. It's easy to get wrapped up in the people who populate the incisive tale. At the book's center is the story of two competing families. The Belseys are headed up by Howard, a white Englishman who is a Rembrandt expert and professor at a prestigious East ... (continue)
moogle said on Mar 28, 2007 | Add your feedback
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Smith's third novel, an intrepid attempt to explore the sad stuff of adult life, 21st century–style: adultery, identity crises and emotional suffocation, interracial and intraracial global conflicts and religious zealotry. Like Smith's smash debut, White Teeth (2000).
I actually preferred Whit ... (continue)
ambient pleasures said on Sep 12, 2006 | Add your feedback
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An ambitious try, indeed, but not quite successful: after reading the masterpiece that is "White Teeth", I had great expectations for "On Beauty", and very few of them were actually met.
Characterisation is good here and there, but overall too sketchy: not all the important characters are given enou ... (continue)Iris Trouble B. said on May 20, 2012 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback
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Mag said on Jul 15, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback
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Expected something more...
Actually, after the great "White Teeth" I expected something more by Zadie Smith's "On beauty". Dialogues, Black British references and background are always well displayed throughout the narrative, but the story fails catching the attention and enthusiasm of the readers. I'll surely give her other ... (continue)
Camilla Zu said on Jun 25, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback
Book Details
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- English Books
- Hardcover 464 Pages
- ISBN-10: 1594200637
- ISBN-13: 9781594200632
- Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
- Pub date: Sep 13, 2005
- Dimensions: 1548 mm x 1032 mm x 258 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Paperback, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Others and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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A thing of beauty
On Beauty by Zadie Smith Hamish Hamilton £16.99, pp445 Even if she had not made it explicit in her acknowledgments, Zadie Smith's homage to EM Forster's Howards End announces itself in the opening line of her third novel: 'One may as well begin with ... (read full critics)