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Why do we fall in love with the people we do?Why do we visit our mistake on our children?What makes life truly beautiful?Selin New England mainly and London partly,On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families—the Belseys and the Kippses—and a clutch il of doomed affairs.It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some IIsearching questions about what Iife does to fove.For the Belseys and theKippses.the confusions—both personal and political—of our uncertainage are about to he brought close to home:right to the heart 0f family.

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Howard Belsey is a middle-class white liberal Englishman teaching abroad at Wellington, a thinly disguised version of one of the Ivies. He is a Rembrandt scholar who can't finish his book and a recent adulterer whose marriage is now on the slippery slope to disaster. His wife, Kiki, a black Floridian, is a warm, generous, competent wife, mother, and medical worker. Their children are Jerome, disgusted by his father's behavior, Zora, Wellington sophomore firebrand feminist and Levi, eager to be taken for a "homey," complete with baggy pants, hoodies and the ever-present iPod. This family has no secrets--at least not for long. They talk about everything, appropriate to the occasion or not. And, there is plenty to talk about.

The other half of the story is that of the Kipps family: Monty, stiff, wealthy ultra-conservative vocal Christian and Rembrandt scholar, whose book has been published. His wife Carlene is always slightly out of focus, and that's the way she wants it. She wafts over all proceedings, never really connecting with anyone. That seems to be endemic in the Kipps household. Son Michael is a bit of a Monty clone and daughter Victoria is not at all what Daddy thinks she is. Indeed, Forster's advice, "Only connect," is lost on this group.

The two academics have long been rivals, detesting each other's politics and disagreeing about Rembrandt. They are thrown into further conflict when Jerome leaves Wellington to get away from the discovery of his father's affair, lands on the Kipps' doorstep, falls for Victoria and mistakes what he has going with her for love. Howard makes it worse by trying to fix it. Then, Kipps is granted a visiting professorship at Wellington and the whole family arrives in Massachusetts.

From this raw material, Smith has fashioned a superb book, her best to date. She has interwoven class, race, and gender and taken everyone prisoner. Her even-handed renditions of liberal and/or conservative mouthings are insightful, often hilarious, and damning to all. She has a great time exposing everyone's clay feet. This author is a young woman cynical beyond her years, and we are all richer for i

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1 kipps and belsey

2 the anatomy lesson

3 on beauty and being wrong

 author's note

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书名 ON BEAUTY
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作者 ZADIE SMITH
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出版社 PENGUIN BOOKS
商品编码(ISBN) 9780141026664
开本 48开
页数 448
版次 1
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出版时间 2006-01-01
首版时间 2006-01-01
印刷时间 2006-01-01
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读者对象 青年(14-20岁),普通成人
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重量 0.25
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印张 9.3
印次 1
出版地 英国
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