{"product_id":"9780099593690","title":"David Szalay - All that Man is","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten by David Szalay. Themes include Fiction, Literary, Short Stories (single author).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted For The 2016 Man Booker Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Increasingly looking like the masterpiece of British fiction from the past few years' \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Tracing an arc from the spring of youth to the winter of old age, \u003ci\u003eAll That Man Is\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWinner Of The Edge Hill Reader's Choice Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Some of the best prose to be found in English this year' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'Exact and true and always subtly intelligent' Tessa Hadley\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'It's a rare and wonderous event when a novel changes the way you look at the world around you' William Boyd\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll books at Vastela are pre-owned. Condition varies from good to near-new. No book is sold in unacceptable condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vastela Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58617314345334,"sku":null,"price":8.9,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0707\/7144\/1981\/files\/9780099593690.jpg?v=1788611344","url":"https:\/\/www.vastelabooks.com\/products\/9780099593690","provider":"Vastela Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}