On beauty (Record no. 19024)
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| fixed length control field | 02066nam a2200265 4500 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
| control field | OSt |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20231114110139.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 230428s2006 nyu 000 1 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 014101945X |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Transcribing agency | QCPL |
| Description conventions | rda |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | Fic |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Smith, Zadie |
| Relator term | author |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | On beauty |
| Remainder of title | : a novel |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | / by Zadie Smith |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | New York : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Penguin Books, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2006 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 445 pages |
| 336 ## - Content Type | |
| Source | rdacontent |
| Content type term | text |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Source | rdamedia |
| Media type term | unmediated |
| 338 ## - Carrier Type | |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| Carrier type term | volume |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | 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? |
| 586 ## - AWARDS NOTE | |
| Awards note | Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2005. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | College teachers |
| Form subdivision | Fiction |
| 655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Source of term | lcgft |
| 9 (RLIN) | 10554 |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Domestic fiction |
| 690 ## - LOCAL SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM (OCLC, RLIN) | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Fiction |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | Book |
| Lost status | Library use only | Collection code | Permanent Location | Current Location | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Full call number | Barcode | Koha item type |
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| Fiction | Matandang Balara Branch | Matandang Balara Branch | Fiction Area | 03/07/2023 | Donation | Fic Sm664o 2006 | 126530d | Book |