The Autograph Man
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From the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN’S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Swing Time, White Teeth and On Beauty’A pleasure from the first page to the last’ Evening Standard’A glorious concoction by our most beguiling and original prose-wizard’ Independent on Sunday ‘Full of humour, the search for love and the fear of death… A touching, thoughtful, deeply felt rite-of-passage novel’ Sunday Telegraph The Autograph Man follows one Alex-Li Tandem: a twenty-something Chinese-Jewish autograph dealer turned on by sex, drugs and organised religion. From London to New York, love to death, fathers to sons, Alex tries to discover how a piece of paper can bring him closer to his heart’s desire. Exposing our misconceptions about our idols – about ourselves – Zadie Smith delivers a brilliant, unforgettable tale about who we are and what we really want to be.

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Weight 0.303 kg
Dimensions 3 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Paperback
Language

Pages

432
Publisher

Year Published

2003-5-22
Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

0140276343
About The Author

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; a collection of short stories, Grand Union; and the play, The Wife of Willesden, adapted from Chaucer. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People. Zadie Smith was born in north-west London, where she still lives. The Fraud is her first historical novel.

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