On Beauty

Author: Zadie Smith

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  • : $35.00 AUD
  • : 9780241142936
  • : Hamish Hamilton
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  • : 01 June 2005
  • : 241mm X 156mm X 40mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 39.95
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Barcode 9780241142936
9780241142936

Local Description

2005. First edition, first printing. A fine, unmarked and unread copy in a fine, unclipped d/w.

Description

Then Jerome, Howard's oldest son, falls for Victoria, the stunning daughter of the right-wing icon Monty Kipps. Increasingly, 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...

Awards

Winner of Orange Prize 2006. Shortlisted for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2005 and British Book Awards: Writer of the Year 2006 and Orange Youth Panel Prize 2010.

Author description

Zadie Smith was born in north-west London in 1975 and still lives in the area. She is the author of WHITE TEETH and THE AUTOGRAPH MAN.