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One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
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.
ASIN : B000PC0SKU
Publisher : Penguin Books (September 13, 2005)
Publication date : September 13, 2005
Language : English
File size : 905 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
Print length : 473 pages
Customers say
Customers find the writing quality beautiful and insightful, with differentiated characters. They also describe the book as a good read with spot-on portrayal of hyper-hyper-humans. However, some find the style boring, repetitive, and dragging. Opinions are mixed on the family relationships, with some finding it compelling and others finding them implausible. Readers also have mixed feelings about the characters, with others finding the well-developed and likeable, while others find them largely dislikeable.
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