Zadie Smith: On Beauty

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Partner:: Book Passage
Location:: Book Passage
Corte Madera, CA
Event Date:: 09.14.06
Speaker:: Zadie Smith
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Summary: Zadie Smith talks about her third novel, On Beauty.

On Beauty is an analysis of family life, the institution of marriage and an honest look at people's deceptions. An infidelity, a death and a legacy set in motion a chain of events that forces everyone to examine the assumptions which underpin their lives.

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Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith is the author of the novels "White Teeth," which won the 2000 Whitbread First Novel Award; "The Autograph Man," which won the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize; and "On Beauty," which won the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction. Last year, she published "Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays," parts of which first appeared in The New Yorker. She has been contributing to the magazine since 1999.