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All That Man Is

All That Man Is

Author(s): David Szalay

Location(s): Europe

Genre(s): Short Stories

Era(s): Contemporary

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Here are nine men. Each of them is at a different stage in life, each of them is away from home, and each of them is striving – in the suburbs of Prague, in an over-developed Alpine village, beside a Belgian motorway, in a crap Cypriot hotel – to understand just what it means to be alive, here and now. Vibrating with detail and intelligence, pathos and surprise, All That Man Is is a portrait of contemporary manhood, contemporary Europe and contemporary life from a British writer of supreme gifts – the master of a new kind of realism.

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Great sense of place in some of the stories – London, the hotels and the shabby corner stores. On the boat with the Russian….

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Sad characters. Dark situations. Brilliant, spare language.

Author: andrewmorris51

What an original piece of writing author David Szalay has created in All That Man Is. In nine short stories he introduces us to nine different men, some young, some old, all highly flawed and all seemingly at a...

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