UID:
kobvindex_ZLB34771798
Edition:
Unabridged
ISBN:
9780241983669
Content:
"From the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Swing Time, White Teeth and On Beauty Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith, read by Ben Barnes. 'A pleasure from the first page to the last' Evening Standard 'A glorious concoction by our most beguiling and original prose-wizard' Independent on Sunday 'Full of humour, the search for love and the fear of death... A touching, thoughtful, deeply felt rite-of-passage novel' Sunday Telegraph The Autograph Man follows one Alex-Li Tandem: a twenty-something Chinese-Jewish autograph dealer turned on by sex, drugs and organised religion. From London to New York, love to death, fathers to sons, 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 and what we really want to be."
Content:
Biographisches: "Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time, as well as three collections of essays, Changing My Mind, Feel Free and Intimations, and a collection of short stories, Grand Union. White Teeth won multiple awards, including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. On Beauty was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and NW was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Zadie Smith is currently a tenured professor of fiction at New York University and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is a regular contributor to the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books." Rezension(2): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: September 30, 2002 Smith39" Rezension(3): "〈a href=http://www.audiofilemagazine.com target=_blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/audiofile_logo.jpg alt=AudioFile Magazine border=0 /〉〈/a〉:Zadie Smith's new novel, flaws and all, is a breathtaking high-wire act, irreverent, funny, clever, mystifying, and mythic. Alex-Li Tandem is a half-Jewish, half-Chinese dealer in autographs. His obsession with the autograph of a once famous actress leads him into a marijuana and alcohol- induced haze, in which order turns to chaos and celebrity is reduced to a signature. When 12-year-old Alex and his friends drive his father to the edge, Steven Crossley performs with youthful zeal. As Alex becomes an unpleasant, self-involved adult whose friends urge him to say kaddish for his long dead father, Crossley convinces us that these are the same boys, seasoned by age. Crossley delivers a virtuoso performance of this challenging, difficult story by one of England's finest young novelists. S.J.H. (c) AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine"
Language:
English
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