The Autograph Man
by Zadie Smith
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Author: Zadie SmithEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-06-17
ISBN: 037570387X
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Vintage
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Book Review: A struggle to read
Summary: 2 Stars
I struggled to get through this book. It is clear that Zadie Smith is an intelligent woman and has writing potential. However, the primary function of writing is communicating and that just does not happen with this book. Maybe it's a generational thing or a cultural thing but I simply could not empathize or warm to the any of the characters and that is why the book was so difficult to read. Dialog came in fits and starts from a handful of superfluous characters that didn't seem to add much to this slow developing story either. When many of the fringe characters did speak it was in a colloquial manner and I had an arduous time deciphering what it was they were actually alluding to which was usually nothing significant to moving the story line forward.
This book required too much effort for too small a payoff. In the end, none of the characters were memorable. In fact, I was happy to finish so I would never have to encounter them again. To her credit, Zadie Smith does a marvelous job developing a "sense of place" in the novel with an economy of words. I wish she could have imbued her characters with as much appeal. The plot itself is trite.
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