Alex-Li Tandem sells autographs.
Look for her new book Swing Time, coming November 2016..
It offers further proof that Zadie Smith is one of the most staggeringly talented writers of her generation.
The Autograph Man is a deeply funny existential tour around the hollow trappings of modernity: celebrity, cinema, and the ugly triumph of symbol over experience.
With fries.
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.
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.
Alex-Li Tandem sells autographs
