All That Man Is
Shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize, David Szalay's All That Man Is is the brilliantly observed, large-hearted novel of stories that has redefined contemporary writing.
Set in various cities across Europe, this virtuoso collection of stories from David Szalay explores the ever-shifting terrain of manhood through the eyes of men who are at various stages in their lives. From the emotional angst of the teenage years to the gnawing aches of old age, these stories, in all their disturbing darkness, offer sharp psychological insight into the complex nature of what defines man, as characters grapple with pride and greed, jealousy and love, grief and loneliness. Funny and heart-achingly sad, these stories are invariably true to life as they contemplate…
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August 7, 2018
DAVID SZALAY was born in Montreal in 1974, and moved to the U.K. the following year. He went to Oxford University and has written a number of radio dramas for the BBC. He won the Betty Trask Prize for his first novel, London and the South-East (2008), along with the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. He was recently named one of the Telegraph's "Top 20 British Writers under 40," a Granta Best of Young British Novelists in 2013, and he won the 2016 Plimpton Prize for Fiction, awarded by the Paris Review for an outstanding contribution to the magazine. His most recent novel, All That Man Is, was published in April 2016. It was shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize…
