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4.0 out of 5 stars great stuff from Zadie Smith, Jun 16 2003
By Saima Huq "sh" (Astoria, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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Alex-Li Tandem is the son of a Jewish mother and a Chinese father, and friends with Rubenstine and Adam (all Jewish of different races) from his cheder class. When he is 13, his father takes him and his friends to a wrestling match in Royal Albert Hall, where they meet the shy Joseph, whose own father ridicules him for collecting autographs. It is at this event that Alex's father collapses and dies from a brain tumor.

Fast-forward nearly 30 years, and the 4 boys are still friends. Joseph has gone into insurance sales, but Alex is now a professional "autograph man", selling people's scribbles for money. He has a 10-year relationship with Adam's younger ill sister esther (she had a pacemaker implanted as a child) and the elusive goal of procuring the autograph of the reclusive American movie star of the 1940s, Kitty Alexander. Alex also has head problems and drug problems that lead him to wreck his own car.

As Alex messes, then rights, his own life, it becomes evident that this search for an autograph is really to distract him from other things in his life. The book is captivating with its multiracial cast in modern London, all with the problems of most people and none of the Bridget Jones clones. It is refreshing to read this, it is a work of substance.

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1.0 out of 5 stars No seconds, please..., Nov 21 2002
By Shannon Williamson Martin (Atlanta) - See all my reviews
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I wanted so badly to like Smith's second novel The Autograph Man. However,half way through the novel it was becoming more and more difficult to convince myself, that the novel would turn around. Two reasons I decided to give this book one star:
(1) Alex Li-Tandem's character wasn't developed enough, to even make the reader care about his trail of destruction.
(2)The book simply wasn't humerous, and I expected humor, after reading White Teeth which I loved.
I know Smith is coping and trying deal with the themes of celebrity in her sophomore novel, but she she has come up short with the Autograph Man.
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