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The Autograph Man: a novel

From the bestselling author of the award-winning WHITE TEETH 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 - to give 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 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. Through London and then New York, Alex is sent on a paper-trail, searching for the only autograph that ever mattered to him ... Alex is on his way to finding enlightenment, otherwise known as some part of himself that cannot be signed or sold.

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  • "Fame! I'm gonna live forever!"
  • "Fame! I'm gonna live forever!"@en
  • "Autograph man"@he
  • "Autograph man"
  • "Autograph man"@it
  • "Autograph man"@pl

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  • "Classic fiction. Alex-Li Tandem sells autographs. He hunts for them, collects them, sells them, occasionally fakes them - all to give the people what they want - a little piece of Fame. A deeply funny, existential tour around the hollow things of modernity - celebrity, cinema, and the ugly triumph of symbol over experience. Unlike his generation, Alex-Li is on his way to finding enlightenment, otherwise known as some part of himself that cannot be signed, celebrated or sold."
  • "Alex-Li Tandem is a 27-year-old, half-Jewish, half-Chinese man in search of himself. In his own words, he has "no love, no transportation, no ambitions, no faith," and not much else. An autograph peddler, he hunts down the signatures people want and sells them."
  • "Deeply funny, subversive and splendidly entertaining, The Autograph Man is a whirlwind tour of celebrity and our fame-obsessed times. Following one Alex-Li Tandem-- a twenty-something, Chinese-Jewish autograph dealer turned on by sex, drugs and organized religion-- it takes in London and New York, love and death, fathers and sons, as Alex tries to discover how a piece of paper can bring him closer to his heart's desire."
  • "From the bestselling author of the award-winning WHITE TEETH 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 - to give 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 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. Through London and then New York, Alex is sent on a paper-trail, searching for the only autograph that ever mattered to him ... Alex is on his way to finding enlightenment, otherwise known as some part of himself that cannot be signed or sold."@en
  • "Autograph trader Alex-Li Tandem embarks on a picaresque odyssey that takes him from London to New York in pursuit of the only autograph that has ever really mattered to him, dealing with mystical lore, con men, interfering rabbis, fellow collectors, and bonsai dealers that would hinder his quest."@en
  • "Alex-Li Tandem sells autographs. A small blip in a huge worldwide network of desire, 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 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."
  • "Alex-Li Tandem collects and sells autographs. He wants - the return of his father, something for his headache, the end of religion, three different girls, infinite grace and the rare autograph of a forties movie actress."@en
  • "The eponymous Autograph Man is Alex Li-Tandem, an Anglo-Chinese Jew obsessed with the "Jewish/Goyish" dichotomy he sees everywhere around him."@en
  • "Whiehots Feb/04."@en

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  • "Anglické romány"
  • "Humorous stories"
  • "Humorous fiction"@en
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@es
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Translations"@he
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Powieść angielska"@pl
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "English fiction"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Picaresque literature"@en
  • "Picaresque literature"
  • "Humorous stories Picaresque literature"@en

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  • "L'homme à l'autographe : roman"
  • "L'home dels autògrafs"
  • "L'uomo autografo"
  • "L'uomo autografo"@it
  • "El cazador de autógrafos"
  • "El cazador de autógrafos"@es
  • "Autografmanden : roman"@da
  • "İmza toplayan adam"
  • "Sakupljač autograma"
  • "Sběratel autogramů"
  • "L'homme à l'autographe"
  • "Nimikirjoitusmies"@fi
  • "Soḥer haḥatimot"
  • "Der Autogrammhändler : Roman"
  • "Der Autogrammhändler Roman"
  • "Qian ming mai mai ren"
  • "Soḥer ha-ḥatimot"
  • "签名买卖人 = The autograph man"
  • "סוחר החתימות"
  • "簽名買賣人"
  • "Qian ming mai mai ren = The autograph man"
  • "El Cazador de aufógrafos"
  • "İmza toplayan adam = [The Autograph man]"
  • "Łowca autografów"
  • "Łowca autografów"@pl
  • "The Autograph Man: a novel"@en
  • "<&gt"@he
  • "The Autograph man"
  • "The autograph man a novel"
  • "L'Home dels autògrafs"@ca
  • "The autograph man"@en
  • "The autograph man"
  • "The Autograph Man"@en
  • "L'Uomo autografo = The Autograph man"
  • "The autograph man : a novel"@en
  • "The autograph man : a novel"
  • "Sakupljac autograma"
  • "De handtekeningenman"
  • "Syllektes autographon"

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