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| Author | David Szalay |
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| Country | Canada, United Kingdom |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Publisher | Jonathan Cape |
Publication date | 2016 |
All That Man Is is a 2016 novel by David Szalay. [1] It is a collection of nine, intertwined short stories. [2]
In September 2016, it was shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize and won the 2016 Gordon Burn Prize. [3]
In his review for The Guardian, Edward Docx described All That Man Is as "the work of a first-rate writer" and that the nine stories "are replete with richly observed humanity". [4]
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