{"product_id":"david-szalay-collection-all-that-man-is-flesh-2-books-set-fiction-paperback-hardback","title":"David Szalay Collection (All That Man Is \u0026 Flesh) 2 Books Set - Fiction - Paperback\/Hardback","description":"\u003cspan\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\n   Titles in this Set:\n  \u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n  1. All That Man Is\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n  2. Flesh (Hardback)\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\n   Description:\n  \u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\n   All That Man Is\n   \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/strong\u003e\n  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.\n \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n  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.\n \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\n   Flesh (Hardback)\n   \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/strong\u003e\n  A propulsive, hypnotic novel about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp.\n \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n  Fifteen-year-old István lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. New to the town and shy, he is unfamiliar with the social rituals at school and soon becomes isolated, with his neighbour - a married woman close to his mother's age - as his only companion. These encounters shift into a clandestine relationship that István himself can barely understand, and his life soon spirals out of control.\n \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n  As the years pass, he is carried gradually upwards on the twenty-first century's tides of money and power, moving from the army to the company of London's super-rich, with his own competing impulses for love, intimacy, status and wealth winning him unimaginable riches, until they threaten to undo him completely.\n \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n  Spare and penetrating, Flesh is the finest novel yet by a master of realism, asking profound questions about what drives a life: what makes it worth living, and what breaks it.\n  \u003cstrong\u003e\n\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/span\u003e\n","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49592617599216,"sku":"B2D7928","price":40.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0579\/9139\/7559\/files\/Thumbnail_2_06c1e82f-3536-406d-a2f9-35da1017c08e.jpg?v=1776767351","url":"https:\/\/americanbookworm.com\/products\/david-szalay-collection-all-that-man-is-flesh-2-books-set-fiction-paperback-hardback","provider":"American Bookworm","version":"1.0","type":"link"}