All that man is
(Book - Regular Print)
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Published
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2016.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 24 cm
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Cottonwood Public Library - FIC - Fiction Books
SZALAY, D.
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SZALAY, D.
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Prescott Public Library - FIC - Fiction Books
SZALAY, DAVID
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SZALAY, DAVID
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Sedona Public Library - FIC - Fiction Books
SZALAY, D.
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SZALAY, D.
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Published
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2016.
Format
Book - Regular Print
Language
English
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Description
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. --,Cover.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Szalay, D. (2016). All that man is . Graywolf Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Szalay, David. 2016. All That Man Is. Graywolf Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Szalay, David. All That Man Is Graywolf Press, 2016.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Szalay, David. All That Man Is Graywolf Press, 2016.
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