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Now in paperback, a Man Booker Prize finalist of “great brilliance and brutal simplicity” (The New Yorker)
Book Title
All That Man Is
Subtitle
A Novel
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- Finalist for the 2016 Man Booker Prize
Winner of the 2016 Plimpton Prize for Fiction
A 2016 New York Times Book Review Notable Book
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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 a working-class ex-grunt to a pompous college student, a middle-aged loser to a 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 finalist for the Man Booker Prize 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 (UK)
“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 (UK)
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Praise
- “This book is a demonstration of uncommon power. It is a bummer, and it is beautiful.”—The New York Times
- “[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
- “Intensely readable. . . . After several hundred pages of great brilliance and brutal simplicity, here at last is a deeper picture of all that man is, or all that he might be.”—James Wood, The New Yorker
- “All That Man Is uses its own peculiar shape to define both the variety and unity of its characters’ collective life. It’s a book . . . that makes a career worth watching.”—New York Review of Books
