The Autograph Man

The Autograph Man

by ZadieSmith (Author)

Synopsis

The Autograph Man is Zadie Smith's whirlwind tour of celebrity and our fame-obsessed times. Following one Alex-Li Tandem - a twenty-something, Chinese-Jewish autograph dealer turned on by sex, drugs and organised religion - it takes in London and New York, love and death, fathers and sons, as 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. "A glorious concoction written by our most beguiling and original prose-wizard". (Independent on Sunday). "A brilliant comedy with a tantalising throb of mystic philosophy underneath". (Philip Hensher, Books of the Year, Spectator). "A pleasure from the first page to the last". (Evening Standard). "Intellectually agile ...ecstatic inventiveness". (Time). "A classic". (Spectator). "Genuinely funny and entertaining". (Guardian). "Vibrant, highly imaginative". (Jewish Chronicle). "Full of irony, humour, the search for love and the fear of death ...a touching, thoughtful, deeply felt rite-of-passage novel". (Sunday Telegraph).

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 432
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 22 May 2003

ISBN 10: 0140276343
ISBN 13: 9780140276343
Prizes: Winner of Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize for Fiction 2003 and Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize: Fiction 2003. Shortlisted for Orange Prize 2003 and Orange Prize for Fiction 2003 and Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2003 and Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2003.

Media Reviews
Intelligent. . . . exquisitely clever. . . . an ironic commentary about fame, mortality, and the triumph of image over reality. -- The Boston Globe
The same bracing intelligence and salty humor that distinguished her debut. . . . Smith scatters marvelous sentences and sharp insights on nearly every page. -- LA Times
A lovely surprise. Zadie Smith . . . has come out with a second book that is actually better than its predecessor: its dialog funnier, its language even more plugged in, more wired. -- Esquire

A preternaturally gifted . . . writer [with] a voice that's street-smart and learned, sassy and philosophical all at the same time. - The New York Times

Savvy, witty and exuberant. -New York Daily News

Smith is young and smart, and . . . she proves to be an amazingly gifted writer. - Washington Post Book World
Smith writes sharp dialogue for every age and race-and she's funny as hell. - Newsweek
[Zadie Smith] possesses a more than ordinary share of talent. - USA Today

Absolutely delightful. -Alan Cheuse, Chicago Tribune
Smith's clever, aphoristic observations and snappy dialogue are so delightful they tend to become addictive. . . . [The Autograph Man is] always entertaining. - Elle
Author Bio
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, and a collection of essays, Changing My Mind. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People. Zadie 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 tenured professor of fiction at New York University and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.