On Beauty

<b><b>One of the <i>New York Times</i>'s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century</b> <p/>Winner of the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction another bestselling masterwork from the celebrated author of <i>Swing Time </i>and <i>White Teeth <p/></i>In this sharp engaging satire beauty's only skin-deep but funny cuts to the bone. --<i>Kirkus Reviews</i></b> <p/>Having hit bestseller lists from the <i>New York Times</i> to the <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i> this wise hilarious novel reminds us why Zadie Smith has rocketed to literary stardom. <i>On Beauty</i> is the story of an interracial family living in the university town of Wellington Massachusetts whose misadventures in the culture wars--on both sides of the Atlantic--serve to skewer everything from family life to political correctness to the combustive collision between the personal and the political. Full of dead-on wit and relentlessly funny this tour de force confirms Zadie Smith's reputation as a major literary talent.