David Szalay
Auteur de All That Man Is
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de David Szalay
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Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1974
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Canada
UK - Lieu de naissance
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Lieux de résidence
- Montréal, Québec, Canada
UK - Études
- Oxford University
- Professions
- radio scriptwriter
novelist - Prix et distinctions
- Granta's Best of Young British Novelists (2013)
- Courte biographie
- He was born in Canada, moved to the UK the following year and has lived there ever since. He studied at Oxford University and has written a number of radio dramas for the BBC.[1] He won the Betty Trask Award for his first novel, London and the South-East, along with the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Since then he has written two other novels: Innocent (2009) and Spring (2011). He has also recently been named one of The Telegraph's Top 20 British Writers Under 40[2] and has also made it onto Granta magazine's 2013 list of the Best of Young British Novelists
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 11
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 977
- Popularité
- #26,370
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 53
- ISBN
- 64
- Langues
- 8
The blurb on the back cover states it is a 'novel of nine men', but really it's nine independent stories about nine different men. The only common thread is that they are all indescribably bleak, full of disappointment with life on various scales.
I don't often think about the sex of the authors I read, but Szalay's narrative feels very masculine. Perhaps it's a Mars and Venus thing, but his characters felt emotionless and one-dimensional even when he was trying to convey emotion, and it was difficult to like any of them.
3 stars - well written, but I just didn't like this author's voice.… (plus d'informations)