The Autograph Man (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Zadie Smith
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1986 and 2001
- Setting: Mountjoy, a suburb in England; New York City
- Principal Characters: Alex-Li Tandem, Li-Jin Tandem, Kitty Alexander, Max Krauser, Adam Jacobs, Joseph Klein, Brian Duchamp, Esther, Mark Rubinfine, Honey Richardson
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Twentieth century, New York City, Twenty-first century, 1980’s, England or English people, Jews or Jewish life, London, Youth, Fame, Mysticism, Entertaining or entertainers, Great Britain, 2000’s
- Locales: New York, NY, London, England
When, in her mid twenties, Zadie Smith wrote the sprawling, Dickensian, multiracial London novel White Teeth (2000), she found herself a best-selling novelist praised by the critics as a hot new voice of the twenty-first century. Written in the comedic vein of Salman Rushdie with hip-hop-influenced cultural savvy, her first novel combined a lively immigrant cast showcased by two oddball middle-aged friends, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal, as they weathered mutinying teenage children, suicide attempts, the seeping loss of their cultural heritage, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Islamic...
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