false 54722927 7627 3679 0143037749 9780143037743 1502 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165030310m/3679.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165030310s/3679.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3679.On_Beauty 3.56 10927 Winner of the 2006 Orange Prize for fiction and from the celebrated author of White Teeth comes another bestselling masterwork

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.

Named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, Entertainment Weekly, Time, and Publishers Weekly A New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Denver Post, and Publishers Weekly bestseller A Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Atlantic Monthly, Newsday, Christian Science Monitor, and Minneapolis Star Tribune Best Book of the Year Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize]]> 2522 3.59 35001 3992 2005 0 2009-05-02T15:32:39-07:00 705548 96 2009-05-02T15:32:39-07:00 3 0 false Thu Jun 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 15:32:33 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 19:03:40 -0700 2009