All That Man Is
Written by David Szalay
Narrated by Huw Parmenter, Mark Meadows and Sean Barrett
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David Szalay
David Szalay is the author of Turbulence, Spring, The Innocent, London and the South-East, and All That Man Is. He’s been awarded the Gordon Burn Prize and The Paris Review Plimpton Prize for Fiction and has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Born in Canada, he grew up in London, and now lives in Budapest.
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