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The Autograph Man

By Zadie Smith

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| eBook | 9780141930275

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Book Description

"The novel is a pleasure from the first page to the last" David Sexton, EVENING STANDARD

Alex-Li Tandem sells autographs. A small blip in a huge worldwide network of desire, it is his business to hunt for names on paper, collect them, sell them,occasionally fake them, and all to g Continue

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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

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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