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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 MAN BOOKER PRIZE
Winner of the 2016 Gordon Burn Prize
Nine men. 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.
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 despicable; vital, pitiable, hilarious, and full of heartfelt longing. And as the years chase them down, the stakes become bewilderingly high in this piercing portrayal of 21st-century manhood.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 MAN BOOKER PRIZE
Winner of the 2016 Gordon Burn Prize
Nine men. 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.
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 despicable; vital, pitiable, hilarious, and full of heartfelt longing. And as the years chase them down, the stakes become bewilderingly high in this piercing portrayal of 21st-century manhood.
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"David 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 some of the best prose to be found in English this year." (Justine Jordan Guardian Books of the Year)
"Szalay's writing is exact and true and always subtly intelligent; this book is bracing and thrilling and chilling." (Tessa Hadley)
"It’s a rare and wonderous event when a novel changes the way you look at the world around you; and this was the case with [All That Man Is]... A worthy winner of the Gordon Burn Prize this year. Gordon Burn would have loved it. Say no more." (William Boyd New Statesman, Book of the Year)
"There is everything to relish about this intelligent, moving, thoroughly European search for the meaning of life ... It's hard to imagine reading a better book this year." (Melissa Katsoulis Times)
"This feels like a great novel driven by its overarching theme: what is my life, here and now, all about? ... Rarely has it been so brilliantly and chillingly spelled out." (John Harding Daily Mail)
"Trains a high-powered microscope on modern life... Szalay might have found in All that Man Is the perfect vehicle for his particular talent... It brings a sensory richness to the bleak and the drab... A showcase for Szalays virtuosic range... Each character is in crisis...yet Szalay grants each a lyrical moment of sensory immersion in the world. It is the resonance of these moments of fleeting transcendence that form the structure of this strange and lucid novel." (Duncan White Daily Telegraph)
"All That Man Is is a triumph... By the fourth chapter the book as a whole has become gripping... Szalay has harnessed the natural energy of time, and the result is a 100-megawatt novel: intelligent, intricate, so very well made. The form perfectly fitting the content. When I reached the end, I turned straight back to the start to begin again." (Claire Lowdon Sunday Times)
"[Szalay is] capable of conjuring tenderness from any situation... Szalay keeps the writing so judgment-free and is so honest about the unpredictability of desire... [Readers] will find a great deal to enjoy in these pages, and further evidence that Szalay...is one of the best fortysomething writers we have." (William Skidelsky Observer)
"Szalay exposes the vulnerability that belies young men’s sexual bravado... Szalay takes us inside distinctive worlds." (Max Liu Independent)
"Szalay’s writing is always sensitive, often funny and brilliantly observed... This is a very poignant piece of writing... All That Man Is does have the feel of a novel: in its evenness of tone, its thematic coherence, its driving sense of purpose... This is a quietly dazzling book by a writer who thoroughly deserves his growing reputation." (Toby Lichtig Literary Review)
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"Szalay's writing is exact and true and always subtly intelligent; this book is bracing and thrilling and chilling." (Tessa Hadley)
"It’s a rare and wonderous event when a novel changes the way you look at the world around you; and this was the case with [All That Man Is]... A worthy winner of the Gordon Burn Prize this year. Gordon Burn would have loved it. Say no more." (William Boyd New Statesman, Book of the Year)
"There is everything to relish about this intelligent, moving, thoroughly European search for the meaning of life ... It's hard to imagine reading a better book this year." (Melissa Katsoulis Times)
"This feels like a great novel driven by its overarching theme: what is my life, here and now, all about? ... Rarely has it been so brilliantly and chillingly spelled out." (John Harding Daily Mail)
"Trains a high-powered microscope on modern life... Szalay might have found in All that Man Is the perfect vehicle for his particular talent... It brings a sensory richness to the bleak and the drab... A showcase for Szalays virtuosic range... Each character is in crisis...yet Szalay grants each a lyrical moment of sensory immersion in the world. It is the resonance of these moments of fleeting transcendence that form the structure of this strange and lucid novel." (Duncan White Daily Telegraph)
"All That Man Is is a triumph... By the fourth chapter the book as a whole has become gripping... Szalay has harnessed the natural energy of time, and the result is a 100-megawatt novel: intelligent, intricate, so very well made. The form perfectly fitting the content. When I reached the end, I turned straight back to the start to begin again." (Claire Lowdon Sunday Times)
"[Szalay is] capable of conjuring tenderness from any situation... Szalay keeps the writing so judgment-free and is so honest about the unpredictability of desire... [Readers] will find a great deal to enjoy in these pages, and further evidence that Szalay...is one of the best fortysomething writers we have." (William Skidelsky Observer)
"Szalay exposes the vulnerability that belies young men’s sexual bravado... Szalay takes us inside distinctive worlds." (Max Liu Independent)
"Szalay’s writing is always sensitive, often funny and brilliantly observed... This is a very poignant piece of writing... All That Man Is does have the feel of a novel: in its evenness of tone, its thematic coherence, its driving sense of purpose... This is a quietly dazzling book by a writer who thoroughly deserves his growing reputation." (Toby Lichtig Literary Review)
David Szalay is the author of three previous novels: Spring, The Innocent and London and the South-East, for which he was awarded the Betty Trask and Geoffrey Faber Memorial prizes. Raised in London, he has lived in Canada and Belgium, and is now based in Budapest. In 2013 he was named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists.
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- Publication date2016
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