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Book SynopsisDavid Szalay is the author of five previous works of fiction:
Spring,
The Innocent,
London and the South-East, for which he was awarded the Betty Trask and Geoffrey Faber Memorial prizes,
All That Man Is, for which he was awarded the Gordon Burn prize and Plimpton Prize for Fiction, and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and
Turbulence, which won the Edge Hill Prize. Born in Canada, he grew up in London, and now lives in Vienna. His work has been translated into over twenty languages.
Trade ReviewAll That Man Is... looks increasingly like
the masterpiece of British fiction from the past few years. -- David Sexton * Evening Standard *
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 *
