Szalay David - All That Man Is A Novel - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Finalist for the 2016 Man Booker Prize Winner of the 2016 Paris Review Plimpton Prize for Fiction A magnificent and ambitiously conceived portrait of contemporary life by a genius of realism All That Man Is traces the arc of life from the spring of youth to the winter of old age by following nine men who range from the working - class ex - grunt to the pompous college student the middle - aged loser to the Russian oligarch. Ludicrous and inarticulate shocking and despicable vital pitiable and hilarious these men paint a picture of modern manhood. David Szalay is a master of a new kind of realism that vibrates with detail intelligence relevance and devastating pathos. In All That Man Is a Man Booker Prize finalist and the winner of the Gordon Burn Prize and the Plimpton Prize he brilliantly illuminates the physical and emotional terrain of an increasingly globalized Europe. Szalay's prose is frequently brilliant remarkable for its grace and economy All That Man Is has a new urgency now that the post - Cold War dream of a Europe of open borders and broad shared identity has come under increasing question. Garth Greenwell The New York Times Book Review Szalay does so much and so well that we come to view his snapshots of lives as brilliant captivating dramas. Star Tribune (Minneapolis) A 100 - megawatt novel: intelligent intricate so very well made the form perfectly fitting the content. When I reached the end I turned straight back to the start to begin again. The Sunday Times (London)
Title: All That Man Is A Novel
Author(s): Szalay David
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Barcode: 9781555977900
Pages: 368 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 10/3/2017
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction