On Beauty | Summary
Part I: Kipps and Belsey
This first section of Smith's On Beauty is used to identify the major characters and to set up the dynamics among them. The story begins with e-mails from Jerome Belsey to his father, Howard. Jerome is temporarily living in London. He is staying with the Kipps family. Howard Belsey and Monty Kipps have very different political and academic philosophies. Howard is liberal. Kipps is conservative. Howard is white and British. Kipps is a Jamaican black. Both have taken a deep interest in the artist Rembrandt, but their opinions are...
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