The Autograph Man

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• Name of the prose

  The Autograph Man Zadie Smith Hamish Hamilton, £16.99, pp432 The Booker Prize is hardly a lottery, but the books that go through at each stage tend to be the ones with fewest enemies, not the ones with most friends. Literary politics play a part, eve ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• Signs and wanders

  The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith 419pp, Hamish Hamilton, £16.99 If the downside of literary celebrity is that people gossip nastily about you in print and take pictures of you with no make-up on, then the advantage is that your publishers don't mind ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

2 Reviews

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  Not nearly as good as the author's stellar debut White Teeth; scratch that, not nearly within the same time zone as good actually. A rather convoluted inconsistent mess, with some irrelevant secondary characters. Taxing because it reads a lot harder than it somehow should, and overall it's just unim ... (continue)

  Not nearly as good as the author's stellar debut White Teeth; scratch that, not nearly within the same time zone as good actually. A rather convoluted inconsistent mess, with some irrelevant secondary characters. Taxing because it reads a lot harder than it somehow should, and overall it's just unimpressionable and unimpressive.

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  Danelectrico said on Dec 5, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

• i got this one because i loved "on beauty", but this one seems to be very different. put it aside, using the "don't have to read a book which is still not interesting after the first 50 pages" -rule.

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  Pohva said on Feb 5, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Hardcover
• ISBN-10: 0141885920
• ISBN-13: 9780141885926
• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Pub date: Jan 01, 2002
• Also available as: Paperback, Audio Cassette and eBook
• In other languages: other languages Libri Italiani

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