# On Beauty

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- Book: [On Beauty](https://www.bookquiver.com/zadie-smith/on-beauty) ([On Beauty.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/zadie-smith/on-beauty.md))
- Authors: [Zadie Smith](https://www.bookquiver.com/zadie-smith)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4101-945-1
- Pages: 464
- Published: 2020-02-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Set in New England mainly and London partly, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kipps - and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some searching questions about what life does to love. For the Belseys and the Kipps, the confusions - both personal and political - of our uncertain age are about to be brought close to home: right to the heart of family.