All That Man IsAll That Man Is

"Nine men. Each of them at a different stage in life, each of them is away from home, and each of them is striving--in the suburbs of Prague, in an over-developed Alpine village, beside a Belgian motorway, in a crap Cypriot hotel--to understand just what it means to be alive, here and now. Tracing a dramatic arc from the spring of youth to the winter of old age, from the working class ex-grunt to the pompous college student, the middle-aged loser to the Russian oligarch, the ostensibly separate narratives of All That Man Is aggregate into a picture of a single shared existence. Ludicrous and inarticulate, shocking and despicable, vital, pitiable, and hilarious, these men paint a sorry picture of modern manhood while bringing to life the physical and emotional terrain of an increasingly globalized Europe."--