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| Plot Summary of On Beauty |
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"The Belsey family is NOT your typical family! Living in Wellington, a fictional college town in the Massachusetts, their lives revolve around the "snooty" liberal arts college (Wellington) at which Howard Belsey, the father, is a distinguished professor of art history. Although he has been happily married to Kiki for nearly thirty years, Howard has an affair with one of his college colleagues. Although the affair is in the past, it still haunts the family and creates problems for Zora, one of the Belsey children who sees herself as a poet and desperately wants to get into the class of the person with whom Howard has had the affair. In the meantime, Jerome, the eldest of the Belsey children, has fallen in love with Victoria Kipps, the daughter of Prof. Kipps, the visiting art historian to Wellington from England, who also happens to be Howard Belsey's arch enemy! Finallly, youngest child Levi Belsey has decided to take up the cause of a Haitian "brother" (the Levi children are products of an interracial marriage) to help restore dignity to their country. "
, Resident Scholar
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| Review Analysis of On Beauty |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book?
- very sensitive (sigh)
Time/era of story
- present (2000-2010)
Romance/Romance Problems
Yes
Kind of romance:
- playing footsy while inconveniently married
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Main Character
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- teacher
Age:
- 40's-50's
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- scholar
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- a substantial amount
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- average physique
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 10 (a tremendous amount)
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Lot of foul language?
Yes
Unusual Style:
- a lot of play on words
Amount of dialog
- significantly more dialog than descript
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