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Original Title:	The Autograph Man
ISBN:	037570387X (ISBN13: 9780375703874)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2002), Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Shortlist (2003), Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize Nominee for Comic Fiction (2003), Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize for Fiction (2003)

The Autograph Man Paperback | Pages: 347 pages

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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.

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Title	:	The Autograph Man
Author	:	Zadie Smith
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 347 pages
Published	:	June 17th 2003 by Vintage (first published September 12th 2002)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. Novels. Literary Fiction. Literature

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Glad to find someone else who loves this book. It always bothers me how underappreciated it is.

A thoroughly modern fable that seems to be about the over-identification with symbols, from the marks of Kabbalah to the titular autographs. It's brisker and more playful than White Teeth (which was plenty playful) but also lacks its human scope. It also suffers from a frequent Zadie Smith problem I have; she seems decidedly more capable of sympathy for her characters than I am. Note to self: reading about alcoholics is annoying if you want to care about their decisions at all.

She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence.Zadie Smith has been on my list of authors to read for several years, but I'd only heard of her more well-known novels, White Teeth and On Beauty. I found The Autograph Man on a bookshelf in the teacher's lounge at my school and immediately picked it up. The story was difficult to get into at first, as the main character, Alex Li-Tandem, didn't start off being too sympathetic or relatable.

I have struggled with Zadie Smith in the past but found that it was well worth persevering. Not in this case. The Autograph Man has been described as "wonderfully funny" and "witty". While there are certainly many attempts at humour, I did not find the usually drunken or doped meanderings of Alex Li Tandem appealing to my sense of humour. The most moving part of the book was the description of Alex's father's death, which appears to be the instigation of Alex's career as an autograph man. His

Zadie Smith certainly has a way with characters and dialogue. Her characters live. (The only character I found a bit underdeveloped was Esther, but this may have been intentional as we only see her through Alex's thoughts and what others say to him for most of the book.)The plot is inventive and, despite one early section, kept my interest throughout. I will certainly forgive the only one or two quirky areas where I thought some editing might've been good in order to have the exuberant,

If youre looking to read some Zadie Smith then Id recommend you steer clear of this one... It pains me to say it, as Smiths other four novels are all absolute delights, but unfortunately I found this one very tedious - But you can all rest assured that I recommend White Teeth, Swing Time, On Beauty and NW heartily!.Usually Smiths novels are bursting with life and vibrancy, theres a great sprawling cast of characters and she turns her sharp eye to dissecting society... in The Autograph Man, there

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