The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith
Hardcover, UK | 1st Edition | 1st Printing | 2002 | Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
A highly sought-after first edition from Zadie Smith — one of the most celebrated and important British novelists of her generation. Smith's debut, White Teeth (2000), won the Whitbread First Novel Award, the Guardian First Book Award, and the Orange Prize for Fiction, and made her an overnight literary phenomenon at just 24. The Autograph Man was her eagerly awaited second novel, a brilliantly inventive and culturally layered story of Alex-Li Tandem, a young Jew obsessed with celebrity autographs, set against a backdrop of pop culture, Buddhism, and Jewish identity. Published by Hamish Hamilton. Smith has since published On Beauty (winner of the Orange Prize 2006), NW, Swing Time, and The Fraud.
Condition: As New, but may show signs of previous ownership.
A near-fine first edition of Zadie Smith's second novel — an essential acquisition for collectors of contemporary British literary fiction.