All That Man Is by David SzalayFinalist 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 Nine men. Each of them at a different stage in life, each of them away from home, and each of them striving--in the suburbs of Prague, in an overdeveloped Alpine village, beside a Belgian motorway, in a dingy Cyprus hotel--to understand what it means to be alive, here and now. Tracing a dramatic arc from the spring of youth to the winter of old age, the ostensibly separate narratives of All That Man Is aggregate into a picture of a single shared existence, a picture that interrogates the state of modern manhood while bringing to life, unforgettably, the physical and emotional terrain of an increasingly globalized Europe. And so these nine lives form an ingenious and new kind of novel, in which David Szalay expertly plots a dark predicament for the twenty-first-century man. Dark and disturbing, but also often wickedly and uproariously comic, All That Man Is is notable for the acute psychological penetration Szalay brings to bear on his characters, from the working-class ex-grunt to the pompous college student, the middle-aged loser to the Russian oligarch. Steadily and mercilessly, as this brilliantly conceived book progresses, the protagonist at the center of each chapter is older than the last one, it gets colder out, and All That Man Is gathers exquisite power. Szalay is a writer of supreme gifts--a master of a new kind of realism that vibrates with detail, intelligence, relevance, and devastating pathos.
Call Number: PR6119.Z35 A45 2016
ISBN: 9781555977535
Publication Date: 2016-10-04
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Call Number: PR9499.3.R59 G63 1997
ISBN: 9780679457312
Publication Date: 1997-04-22
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ISBN: 9780735211179
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Call Number: PZ7.P8556 B66564 2017
ISBN: 9780375815300
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Call Number: PN6790.A73 O4513 2015
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Call Number: PS3552.A8358 D4 1999
ISBN: 9780805043020
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Call Number: PS3566.R697 B37 2016
ISBN: 9780743288781
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Call Number: PQ2603.E378 M6 1951
ISBN: 9780375400704
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Call Number: PS3621.M75 S67 2005
ISBN: 9780060791551
Publication Date: 2006-01-10
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Call Number: PS3562.A316 L69 2013
ISBN: 9780307265746
Publication Date: 2013-09-24
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Call Number: PS3620.O945 R85 2011
ISBN: 9780670022694
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Call Number: PS3614.G97 A6 2017
ISBN: 9780802126399
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Call Number: PT2635.E68 I625 1996
ISBN: 9780449911495
Publication Date: 1996-09-29
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Call Number: PR6063.C4 S27 2005
ISBN: 9780385511803
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Call Number: PQ2635.O9618 L613 1970
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Call Number: PT2681.E18 R56 1999
ISBN: 9780811214131
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