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Latest book - The Autograph man - The eagerly-awaited follow-up to the
bestselling and prize-winning WHITE TEETH, which established Zadie Smith
as an outstanding new writer. 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 give the people what they want: a little piece of Fame. THE AUTOGRAPH
MAN is a deeply funny, existential tour around the hollow things of modernity
- celebrity, cinema, and the ugly triumph of symbol over experience. Pushing
against the tide of his generation, Alex-Li is on his way to finding enlightenment,
otherwise known as some part of himself that cannot be signed, celebrated
or sold.
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