The Autograph Man

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Paperback version of Zadie Smith's follow-up to the ultra-successful "White Teeth". This story, of a man who buys and sells autographs, examines the nature of celebrity and its bearing on reality. Campaign to include bus-side advertising, outdoor posters and London Underground. 85,000 sold in hardback. "A terrific advance on her excellent "White Teeth". A brilliant comedy with a tantalising throb of mystic philosophy underneath" Philip Hensher. Zusammenfassung Following one Alex-Li Tandem - a twenty-something, Chinese-Jewish autograph dealer turned on by sex, drugs and organised religion, this title 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.

Product details

• Authors: Zadie Smith, Smith Zadie
• Assisted by: Roderick Mills (Illustration)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 22.05.2003
• EAN: 9780140276343
• ISBN: 978-0-14-027634-3
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; New York, New York City, London, Greater London, FICTION / Women, FICTION / City Life, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Contemporary lifestyle fiction