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008			230428s2006 nyu 000 1 eng d
020			_a014101945X
040			_cQCPL _erda
082			_aFic
100	1		_aSmith, Zadie _eauthor
245	1	0	_aOn beauty _b: a novel _c/ by Zadie Smith
264		1	_aNew York : _bPenguin Books, _c2006
300			_a445 pages
336			_2rdacontent _atext
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume
520			_aHoward 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			_aShortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2005.
650			_aCollege teachers _vFiction
655		7	_2lcgft _910554 _aDomestic fiction
942			_2ddc _cBOOK
690			_aFiction