The Autograph Man

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Author:

Smith, Zadie

Read by:

Goodman, Henry

ISBN:

978-0-14-180475-0

Publication Date:

Apr 2003

Publisher:

Penguin Books, Limited

Book Format:

CD-Audio

List Price:

AUD $35.00

Book Description:

Deeply funny, subversive and splendidly entertaining, The Autograph Man is a whirlwind tour of celebrity and our fame-obsessed times. Following one Alex-LiTandem - 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 -...
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Book Details

Pages:	6
Detailed Subjects:	Fiction / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):	12.7 x 14.605 x 2.362 cm
Book Weight:	0.227 Kilograms

Author Biography

Smith, Zadie (Author)

Zadie Smith is a novelist, essayist and short story writer. As of 2012, she has published four novels, White Teeth (2000), The Autograph Man (2002), On Beauty (2005), and NW (2012), all of which have received critical praise. In 2003, she was included on Granta's list of 20 best young authors and Smith won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2006. Her novel White Teeth was included in Time magazines TIME 100 Best English-language. Smith joined NYU's Creative Writing Program as a tenured professor in 2010.

Smith attended Hampstead Comprehensive School, and King's College, Cambridge University where she studied English literature.

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