A review by curthull
All That Man Is by David Szalay

4.0

All of the characters in each of these nine short stories feel like someone I have known or might have known or who I may have been. It’s a shame somewhat that these are short stories and not novels; the characters are drawn so well, there must be more to know about them.

But there is also a pervasive melancholy. Each main character is flawed or incomplete or has failed - not in how they are drawn by the author, but in their lives. It makes me glad to have only known them for a little while and then let them go on without me. But I am glad for the reflections and insights they have shared and have left me with.

I think I will now seek out a full novel by this author.