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On beauty a novel

Howard Belsey is an Englishman teaching at a New England college. After he has an affair with a colleague, his oldest son, Jerome, goes to England works for Monty Kipps, a Trinidadian right-wing academic and pundit. Jerome falls for Kipps' daughter and their short-lived romance brings the Belsey and Kipps families together.

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  • "On beauty"@it
  • "On beauty"
  • "On beauty"@pl
  • "Guan yu mei"

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  • "Howard Belsey is an Englishman teaching at a New England college. After he has an affair with a colleague, his oldest son, Jerome, goes to England works for Monty Kipps, a Trinidadian right-wing academic and pundit. Jerome falls for Kipps' daughter and their short-lived romance brings the Belsey and Kipps families together."@en
  • "Howard Belsey is an Englishman teaching at a New England college. After he has an affair with a colleague, his oldest son, Jerome, goes to England works for Monty Kipps, a Trinidadian right-wing academic and pundit. Jerome falls for Kipps' daughter and their short-lived romance brings the Belsey and Kipps families together."
  • "Set in New England mainly and London partly, 'On Beauty" concerns a pair of feuding families and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some searching questions about what life does to love."@en
  • "Een multiraciaal gezin zoekt in een multiculturele universiteitsstad in Amerika op soms hilarische wijze naar ouderwetse waarden en normen in de moderne samenleving."
  • "-- New York Times Named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by the -- On Beauty - -- Chicago Tribune "Short-listed for (the 2005) Man Booker Prize, On Beauty is a rollicking satire ... a tremendously good read."--San Francisco Chronicle."@en
  • ""Set in New England mainly and London partly, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kippses - 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 Kippses, the confusions - both personal and political - of our uncertain age are about to be brought close to home: right to the heart of family."
  • "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 three children passionately pursue their own paths: Levi quests after authentic blackness, Zora believes that intellectuals can redeem everybody, and Jerome struggles to be a believer in a family of strict atheists. Faced with the oppressive enthusiasms of his children, Howard feels that the first two acts of his life are over and he has no clear plans for the finale. Or the encore. Then Jerome, Howard's older son, falls for Victoria, the stunning daughter of the right-wing icon Monty Kipps, and the two families find themselves thrown together in a beautiful corner of America, enacting a cultural and personal war against the background of real wars that they barely register. An infidelity, a death, and a legacy set in motion a chain of events that sees all parties forced to examine the unarticulated assumptions which underpin their lives. How do you choose the work on which to spend your life? Why do you love the people you love? Do you really believe what you claim to? And what is the beautiful thing, and how far will you go to get it? Set on both sides of the Atlantic, Zadie Smith's third novel is a brilliant analysis of family life, the institution of marriage, intersections of the personal and political, and an honest look at people's deceptions. It is also, as you might expect, very funny indeed."@en
  • "When Howard Belsey's oldest son Jerome falls for Victoria, the stunning daughter of the right-wing Monty Kipps, both families find themselves thrown together, enacting a cultural and personal war against each other."
  • "From the Publisher: 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 three children passionately pursue their own paths: Levi quests after authentic blackness, Zora believes that intellectuals can redeem everybody, and Jerome struggles to be a believer in a family of strict atheists. Faced with the oppressive enthusiasms of his children, Howard feels that the first two acts of his life are over and he has no clear plans for the finale. Or the encore. Then Jerome, Howard's older son, falls for Victoria, the stunning daughter of the right-wing icon Monty Kipps, and the two families find themselves thrown together in a beautiful corner of America, enacting a cultural and personal war against the background of real wars that they barely register. An infidelity, a death, and a legacy set in motion a chain of events that sees all parties forced to examine the unarticulated assumptions which underpin their lives. How do you choose the work on which to spend your life? Why do you love the people you love? Do you really believe what you claim to? And what is the beautiful thing, and how far will you go to get it? Set on both sides of the Atlantic, Zadie Smith's third novel is a brilliant analysis of family life, the institution of marriage, intersections of the personal and political, and an honest look at people's deceptions. It is also, as you might expect, very funny indeed."
  • "Struggling with a stale marriage and the misguided passions of his three adult children, art professor Howard Belsey finds his family life thrown into turmoil by his son's engagement to the socially prominent daughter of a right-wing icon."
  • "Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, feels that the first two acts of his life are over and he has no clear plans for the finale."

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  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"@tr
  • "Powieść angielska"
  • "Powieść angielska"@pl
  • "Bildungsromans"
  • "Bildungsromans"@en
  • "English fiction"
  • "Roman anglais"
  • "Advance copies (Publishing)"@en
  • "Advance copies (Publishing)"
  • "Anglické romány"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Spiral bindings (Binding)"@en
  • "Genres littéraires"
  • "Authors' autographs (Provenance)"@en
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Love stories"@en
  • "Love stories"
  • "Romance fiction"@en
  • "Uncorrected proofs (Printing)"@en
  • "Proofs (Printing)"@en
  • "Printouts"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Translations"

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  • "Over schoonheid"
  • "<&gt"@he
  • "O pięknie"
  • "On Beauty : a novel"
  • "O pięknie"@pl
  • "Von der Schönheit : Roman"
  • "On beauty a novel"
  • "On beauty a novel"@en
  • "Om skønhed : roman"@da
  • "Lun mei = On beauty"
  • "Sobre la bellesa"
  • "关于美"
  • "On beauty : a novel"
  • "On beauty : a novel"@en
  • "On Beauty"
  • "On Beauty"@en
  • "O kráse"
  • "論美 = On beauty"
  • "On beauty"@en
  • "On beauty"
  • "A szépségről : [regény]"@hu
  • "Della bellezza"@it
  • "Della bellezza"
  • "O ljepoti"
  • "Kauneudesta"@fi
  • "Nhan sắc : tiểu thuyết"
  • "On beauty, a novel"
  • "Sobre la belleza"@es
  • "Sobre la belleza"
  • "О красоте : роман = On beauty"
  • "Nhan sá̆c"
  • "O lepoti : [roman]"@sl
  • "Güzelliğe dair"@tr
  • "על היופי : זיידי סמית ; מאנגלית: קטיה בנוביץ'"
  • "O krasote : roman = On beauty"
  • "A szépségről"
  • "De la beauté : roman"
  • "Om skönhet"@sv
  • "論美"
  • "Nhan săc : tiêu thuyêt"
  • "De la beauté"
  • "Lun mei"
  • "On beauty : A novel"
  • "Guan yu mei"

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