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The autograph man

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. Pushing against the tide of 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. 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.

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  • "Alex-Li Tandem is a 27-year-old, half-Jewish, helf-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. He even fakes them if that's what it takes. But what about his own needs? The list is long, but the two most important things are the love of a good woman and the rare autograph of an obscure actress."
  • "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. Pushing against the tide of 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. 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."@en
  • "Een Chinees-Engelse handelaar in handtekeningen van beroemde mensen is op zoek naar die van zijn favoriete filmactrice uit de jaren veertig."
  • "Alex searches for and sells autographs while also seeking some form of inner peace and satisfaction for himself."
  • "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."@en
  • "[This book] is a ... 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, searching for the only autograph that has ever mattered to him, Alex follows the paper trail while resisting the mystical lure of Kabbalah and Zen, and avoiding all collectors, con men, 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 enlightenment, otherwise known as some part of himself that cannot be signed, celebrated, or sold.-Dust jacket."@en

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  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Audiobooks"@en
  • "Humorous fiction"@en
  • "Talking books"@en
  • "Humorous stories"@en
  • "Downloadable audio books"@en
  • "Picaresque literature"
  • "Picaresque literature"@en

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  • "The autograph man"
  • "The autograph man"@en
  • "The autograph man a novel"@en

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