The Autograph Man is Zadie Smith's whirlwind tour of celebrity & our fame-obsessed times Following one Alex-Li Tandem
- a twenty-something Chinese-Jewish autograph dealer turned on by sex drugs & organised religion
- it takes in London & New York love & death fathers & sons as Alex tries to discover how a piece of paper can bring him closer to his heart's desire Exposing our misconceptions about our idols
- about ourselves
- Zadie Smith delivers a brilliant unforgettable tale about who we are & what we really want to be'A glorious concoction written by our most beguiling & original prose-wizard' Independent on Sunday 'A brilliant comedy with a tantalising throb of mystic philosophy underneath' Philip Hensher Books of the Year Spectator'A pleasure from the first page to the last' Evening Standard' Intellectually agile ecstatic inventiveness' Time'A classic' Spectator ' Genuinely funny & entertaining' Guardian' Vibrant highly imaginative' Jewish Chronicle' Full of irony humour the search for love & the fear of death a touching thoughtful deeply felt rite-of-passage novel' Sunday Telegraph