![]() ![]() evident throughout is Smith's droll humor." - Los Angeles Times " beautiful novel. She thrillingly balances engaging ideas with equally engaging characters. ![]() Smith possesses a captivating authorial voice-at once authoritative and nonchalant, and capacious enough to accommodate high moral seriousness, laid-back humor and virtually everything in between-and in these pages, she uses that voice to enormous effect, giving us that rare thing: a novel that is as affecting as it is entertaining, as provocative as it is humane." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "Oh happy day when a writer as gifted as Zadie Smith fulfills her early promise with a novel as accomplished, substantive and penetrating as On Beauty. she possesses an ability to inhabit with equal ease the point of view of children, adolescents and the middle-aged. her instinctive storytelling gifts, her uncanny ear for dialogue and her magical access to her characters' inner lives. alive with the cacophony of urban life and animated by a vibrant sense of how people live and talk. ![]() ![]() As Smith threads together her characters' inner and outer worlds, every sentence sings." The Guardian Praise for On Beauty : "A thoroughly original tale.wonderfully engaging, wonderfully observed. ![]()
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