基本信息出版社：Hamish Hamilton Ltd
页码：432 页
出版日期：2002年10月
ISBN：0241141737
条形码：9780241141731
装帧：平装
开本：20开 Pages Per Sheet
外文书名：签名买卖人

内容简介 Book Description
We live in a world of signs.
But not everybody has to trade in them...

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. But what does Alex want? Only the return of his father, the reinstatement of some kind of all-powerful benevolent God-type-figure, 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.

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. Through London and then New York, Alex is sent on a paper-trail, searching for the only autograph that ever mattered to him, resisting the mystical lure of Kabbalah and Zen, and avoiding all collectors, commen and interfering rabbis who would put themselves in his path. Pushing against the tide of his generation, Alex-Li is on his way to finding enlightment, otherwise known as some part of himself that cannot be signed, celebrated or sold...

Book Dimension
length: (cm)23.4 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)15.3
作者简介 Zadie Smith was born in north-west London in 1975 and continues to live in the area. The Autograph Man is her second novel. Her first book, White Teeth, was the winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction and the Commonwealth Writers' First Book Award.