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The autograph man a novel

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,...

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Main Author: Smith, Zadie.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Vintage Books, 2003, c2002.
Edition: 1st Vintage International ed.
Subjects:
Autographs > Collectors and collecting > Fiction.
Collectors and collecting > Fiction.
Tandem, Alex-Li (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Summary: 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.--From amazon.com.
Physical Description: 347 p. ; 21 cm.
ISBN: 037570387X
9780375703874
Author Notes: 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.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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