ALL THAT MAN IS - SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 IN SOUTH AFRICA

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days This is a Spectator / New Statesman / Daily Telegraph / Guardian / Times Literary Supplement / Observer Book of the Year. It was shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize. It is 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. Features Summary 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... Author David Szalay Publisher Jonathan Cape Release date 20161012 Pages 437 ISBN 0-224-09977-9 ISBN 13 978-0-224-09977-6