On Beauty by Zadie Smith
A multi-generational comic saga split between London and the East Coast of the USA.
Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time, as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia, and a collection of essays, Changing My Mind. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People. Zadie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002, and was listed as one of Granta's 20 Best Young British Novelists in 2003 and again in 2013. White Teeth won multiple literary awards including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. On Beauty was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and NW was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Zadie Smith is currently a tenured professor of fiction at New York University and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780241142943 |
| ISBN 10 | 0241142946 |
| Title | On Beauty |
| Author | Zadie Smith |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2006-04-27 |
| Number of pages | 464 |
| Prizes | Winner of Orange Prize 2006, Winner of Somerset Maugham Award 2006, Short-listed for Orange Youth Panel Prize 2010, Short-listed for British Book Awards: Writer of the Year 2006 |
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