On Beauty

<b>Winner of the 2006 Orange Prize for fiction another&#160;bestselling masterwork&#160;from the celebrated author of <i>Swing Time </i>and&#160;<i>White Teeth<br><br></i>In this sharp engaging satire beauty's only skin-deep but funny cuts to the bone. &#151;<i>Kirkus Reviews</i></b><br><br> 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&#151;on both sides of the Atlantic&#151;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. <br><i><br><br></i>