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On Beauty
First UK edition cover
Author
Zadie Smith
Language
English
Genre
Novel
Publisher
Hamish Hamilton, London
Publication date
2005
Publication place
United Kingdom
Media type
Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages
446 pp
ISBN
0-241-14293-8
OCLC
61855450
Dewey Decimal
829.914 22
LC Class
PR6069.M59 O5 2005b
On Beauty is a 2005 novel by British author Zadie Smith, loosely based on Howards End by E. M. Forster. The story follows the lives of a mixed-race British/American family living in the United States, addresses ethnic and cultural differences in both the USA and the UK, as well as the nature of beauty, and the clash between liberal and conservative academic values. It takes its title from an essay by Elaine Scarry—"On Beauty and Being Just". The Observer described the novel as a "transatlantic comic saga".[1][2]
The novel was shortlisted for the 2005 Man Booker Prize on 8 September 2005. Smith won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award[3] for fiction and Orange Prize for Fiction in June 2006.[4]
^Stephanie Merritt, "Turn over a new leaf", The Observer, 2 January 2005.
^Tolan, Fiona (30 August 2023). ""Painting While Rome Burns": Ethics and Aesthetics in Pat Barker's "Life Class" and Zadie Smith's "On Beauty"". Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature. 29 (2): 375–393. doi:10.1353/tsw.2010.a461383. JSTOR 41337284. S2CID 170759513.
^"Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - The 82nd Annual". Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - The 82nd Annual. Retrieved 11 November 2017.
^"Zadie Smith Wins Orange Prize" Archived 2006-11-19 at the Wayback Machine. Article at The Book Standard
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