On Beauty: A Novel

Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2006. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5x0x8. 1st printing. Faint edge wear. 2006 Trade Paperback. Set in New England mainly and London partly, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kippses - 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 Kippses, the confusions - both personal and political - of our uncertain age are about to be brought close to home: right to the heart of family.