Book Review All That Man Is by David Szalay

Why We PickedIt
- Fans of DavidSzalay
- His ability to capture the look and feel of present-day London
- Interested to see how this work, comprised of short stories, compared to Szalays other recentwriting
What WeThought
- Excellent, not disappointed
- Brutal realism that is at times tough to stomach, but never question whether the stories are plausible
- Great cadence in hiswriting
- Expands into a larger, pan-European setting that still uniquely captures the humanmoment
- A feeling of helplessness across a range of ages and male identities
Selected OtherReviews
- The New Yorker (October2016)
- San Francisco Chronicle (November 2016)
- The New York Review of Books (June2017)