{"product_id":"the-autograph-man-9780375703874","title":"The Autograph Man","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eSwing Time \u003c\/i\u003eand one of the most revered writers of her generation comes an \"intelligent ... exquisitely clever [novel] about fame, mortality, and the triumph of image over reality\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003ci\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlex-Li Tandem sells autographs. His business is to hunt for names on paper, collect them, sell them, and occasionally fake them--all to give the people what they want: a little piece of Fame. But what does Alex want? Only the return of his father, the end of religion, something for his headache, three different girls, infinite grace, and the rare autograph of forties movie actress Kitty Alexander. With fries. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Autograph Man\u003c\/i\u003e is a deeply funny existential tour around the hollow trappings of modernity: celebrity, cinema, and the ugly triumph of symbol over experience. It offers further proof that Zadie Smith is one of the most staggeringly talented writers of her generation. \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZADIE SMITH is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eWhite Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSwing Time, \u003c\/i\u003eas well as a novella, \u003ci\u003eThe Embassy of Cambodia, \u003c\/i\u003e three collections of essays, \u003ci\u003eChanging My Mind, Feel Free, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Intimations, \u003c\/i\u003eand a short story collection, \u003ci\u003eGrand Union.\u003c\/i\u003e She is also the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Other People. \u003c\/i\u003eSmith was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002, and was listed as one of Granta's 20 Best Young British Novelists in 2003 and again in 2013. \u003ci\u003eWhite Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e won multiple literary awards including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. \u003ci\u003eOn Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and \u003ci\u003eNW\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Zadie Smith is currently a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is a regular contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50514086527250,"sku":"9780375703874","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_467f4f8a-bafa-41fd-afd1-c2be045cfad9.jpg?v=1730972806","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-autograph-man-9780375703874","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}