by Zadie Smith · Random House Inc · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781400032150
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«The Autograph Man» is the literary fiction novel by Zadie Smith, published by Random House Inc in paperback (347 pages, in English).
Alex-Li Tandem, collector and occasional forger of autographs, seeks the autograph of actress Kitty Alexander, icon of 1940s cinema. Between London and New York he crosses paths with collectors, con artists and rabbis while the novel reflects on fame and the triumph of the symbol over experience.
The novel was originally published in 2002; this paperback edition is from 2003. It won the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize (2003) and was longlisted for the Booker Prize (2002).
For readers of contemporary literary fiction and British narrative, particularly those interested in the culture of fame and collecting.
Zadie Smith is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel, White Teeth, published in 2000, was an immediate best-seller and won a number of awards. Smith became a tenured professor in the Creative Writing faculty of New York University in September 2010.
