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looks increasingly like the masterpiece of British fiction from the past few years.ĭavid Szalay pushed at the fault lines between the novel and short story form in All That Man Is linked tales of European masculinity in crisis, whose effect is monumentally bleak, but which contain. Show Less Product DetailsĪll That Man Is. And as the years chase them down, the stakes become bewilderingly high in this piercing portrayal of 21st-century manhood. Read more despicable vital, pitiable, hilarious, and full of heartfelt longing. Tracing an arc from the spring of youth to the winter of old age, All That Man Is brings these separate lives together to show us men as they are - ludicrous and inarticulate, shocking and. Each of them at a different stage of life, each of them away from home, and each of them striving - in the suburbs of Prague, beside a Belgian motorway, in a cheap Cypriot hotel - to understand just what it means to be alive, here and now.

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All that man is by david szalay