A Man in Love: My Struggle Book 2 (My Struggle, 2) - Softcover

Knausgaard, Karl Ove

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099555174 ISBN 13: 9780099555179

Publisher: Vintage, 2013

Synopsis

'Intense and vital... Ceaselessly compelling... Superb' James Wood, New YorkerThis is a book about leaving your wife and everything you know., It is about fresh starts, about love, about friendship. It is also about the earth-shattering experience of becoming a father, the mundane struggles of family life, ridiculously unsuccessful holidays, humiliating antenatal music classes, fights with quarrelsome neighbours, the emotional strains of childrens' birthday parties and pushing a pram around Stockholm when all you really want to do is write. This is a book about one man's life but, somehow, about everyone else's too., A Man in Love, the second book of six in the My Struggle cycle, sees Knausgaard write of tempestuous relationships, the trials of parenthood and an urge to create great art. His singular insight and exhilarating honesty must be read to be believed. Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2014.

About this title

Review:

"A stunningly eloquent set of reflections on masculinity, domesticity and the artist's itch to escape" (Boyd Tonkin Independent)

"Compelling, rewarding, maddening...breathtaking" (Observer)

"My favourite book of the year... He has the ability to make the small details of his life fascinating" (William Leith Spectator)

"Shocking and compulsive" (Dazed & Confused)

"This is a reading experience like no other. Fearless in its truth-telling and as real as life, it is an epic study of what it feels like to be alive" (Carys Davies Metro)

Book Description:

An electrifying honest and autobiographical love story from the international sensation and bestseller, Karl Ove Knausgaard

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0099555174
• ISBN 13: 9780099555179
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 672