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All That Man Is

All That Man Is

David Szalay (born 1974)

English editions

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  • All That Man Is

    Graywolf Press · United States · 3 October 2017 · Paperback · 368 pages

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  • All That Man Is

    Jonathan Cape · United Kingdom · 7 April 2016

  • All That Man Is

    Graywolf Press · United States · October 2016 · Hardcover · 384 pages

  • All That Man Is

    Vintage · United Kingdom · 6 April 2017 · Paperback · 448 pages

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Nine men, each older than the last, are each away from home somewhere in Europe. Two English teenagers arrive in Berlin with opposite ideas of how to spend their trip; a young Frenchman who works half-heartedly in his uncle's shop near Lille takes a holiday in Cyprus; a Danish tabloid editor chases a scandal involving a government minister; a disgraced Russian oligarch weighs ending his life; an ageing diplomat recovers from heart surgery in an Italian villa. Moving through suburbs, motorways and hotels as the seasons turn colder, the linked episodes catch men at moments of change, each looking for some meaning in a life that seems to slip past.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Set in
Germany, France, Cyprus, Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, Italy
First published
2016
Author's age
42 when first published
ISBN

9781555977535 (Graywolf Press, United States)

9780099593690 (Vintage, United Kingdom)

9781555977900 (Graywolf Press, United States)

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