Book
On beauty : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 0143037749
- ISBN: 9780143037743
- ISBN: 9781594200632
- ISBN: 1594200637
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Physical Description:
445 pages ; 25 cm.
sound disc
print - Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, ©2005.
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | 1. Kipps and Belsey --- 2. Anatomy lesson --- 3. On beauty and being wrong -- Author's note. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Peter Francis James. |
| 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? |
| Awards Note: | Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, 2006. Orange Prize for Fiction, 2006. Women's Prize for Fiction, 2006 |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | College teachers Fiction Families Morocco Massachusetts Fiction Domestic fiction English fiction 21st century Massachusetts Fiction |
| Genre: | Bildungsromans. Love stories. Domestic fiction. Romance fiction. |
Available copies
- 42 of 42 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Kent Memorial Library - Suffield.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 42 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Kent Memorial Library - Suffield | FICTION SMITH (Text) | 32518102643031 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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