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The Autograph Man

The Autograph Man - Paperback

by Zadie Smith
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Availability:In StockContributor:Zadie SmithSeries:Vintage InternationalPublish date:2003-06-17Pages:368
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780375703874ISBN-10:037570387XUPC:9780375703874Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Women, City LifeSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.6415Product ID:SCC2B3P3CE
From the New York Times bestselling author of Swing Time and one of the most revered writers of her generation comes an "intelligent ... exquisitely clever [novel] about fame, mortality, and the triumph of image over reality" (The Boston Globe).

Alex-Li Tandem sells autographs. His business is to hunt for names on paper, collect them, sell them, and occasionally fake them--all to give the people what they want: a little piece of Fame. But what does Alex want? Only the return of his father, the end of religion, something for his headache, three different girls, infinite grace, and the rare autograph of forties movie actress Kitty Alexander. With fries.

The Autograph Man is a deeply funny existential tour around the hollow trappings of modernity: celebrity, cinema, and the ugly triumph of symbol over experience. It offers further proof that Zadie Smith is one of the most staggeringly talented writers of her generation.
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780375703874ISBN-10:037570387XUPC:9780375703874Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Women, City LifeSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.6415Product ID:SCC2B3P3CE
ZADIE SMITH is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW, and Swing Time, as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia, three collections of essays, Changing My Mind, Feel Free, and Intimations, and a short story collection, Grand Union. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People. Smith was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002, and was listed as one of Granta's 20 Best Young British Novelists in 2003 and again in 2013. White Teeth won multiple literary awards including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. On Beauty was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and NW was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Zadie Smith is currently a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books.
Publisher: Vintage

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