# The Autograph Man

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- Book: [The Autograph Man](https://www.bookquiver.com/zadie-smith/the-autograph-man) ([The Autograph Man.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/zadie-smith/the-autograph-man.md))
- Authors: [Zadie Smith](https://www.bookquiver.com/zadie-smith)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4027-634-3
- Pages: 432
- Published: 2003-05-22
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## 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 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.