Book description
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 in The Autograph Man 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
Zadie Smith was born in north-west London in 1975. Her debut novel,
White Teeth, won the Whitbread First Novel Award, the
Guardian First Book Award, the James Tait Black Memorial
Prize for Fiction, and the Commonwealth Writers' First Book Prize, and
was included in TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to
2005. Her second novel, On Beauty, was shortlisted
for the Man Booker Prize and won the Orange Prize for Fiction.
She has written two further novels, The Autograph Man and
NW, a collection of essays, Changing My Mind, and has
edited a short-story collection, The Book of Other People.
Zadie Smith was born in north-west London in 1975 and continues to
live in the area. THE AUTOGRAPH MAN is her second novel.
