{"product_id":"all-that-man-is-a-novel","title":"All That Man Is: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eFinalist for the 2016 Man Booker Prize\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2016 Paris Review Plimpton Prize for Fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA magnificent and ambitiously conceived portrait of contemporary life, by the author of Flesh, winner of the 2025 Booker Prize\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll That Man Is traces the arc of life from the spring of youth to the winter of old age by following nine men who range from the working-class ex-grunt to the pompous college student, the middle-aged loser to the Russian oligarch. Ludicrous and inarticulate, shocking and despicable, vital, pitiable, and hilarious, these men paint a picture of modern manhood. David Szalay is a master of a new kind of realism that vibrates with detail, intelligence, relevance, and devastating pathos. In All That Man Is, a Man Booker Prize finalist and the winner of the Gordon Burn Prize and the Plimpton Prize, he brilliantly illuminates the physical and emotional terrain of an increasingly globalized Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Szalay’s prose . . . is frequently brilliant, remarkable for its grace and economy . . . [All That Man Is] has a new urgency now that the post-Cold War dream of a Europe of open borders and broad, shared identity has come under increasing question.” ―Garth Greenwell, The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Szalay does so much and so well that we come to view his snapshots of lives as brilliant, captivating dramas.” ―Star Tribune (Minneapolis)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.” ―The Sunday Times (London)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MacMillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53033758425395,"sku":"9781555977900","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0843\/1108\/1267\/files\/9781555977900.jpg?v=1770605104","url":"https:\/\/slantoflightbooks.com\/products\/all-that-man-is-a-novel","provider":"Slant of Light Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}