LONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 MAN BOOKER PRIZE
A NOVEL OF NINE MEN. EACH FACING THE SAME QUESTION.
A youth surrenders to his awakening on holiday in the Med, slicked with doner grease and chlorine. An academic muses on having everything he ever wanted as his lover's life collapses. A billionaire, on the verge of losing everything, drifts aboard his superyacht. An ailing politician is assailed by rising damp, and the impossibility of his desires.
Ludicrous and inarticulate, shocking and despicable; vital, pitiable, hilarious, and full of heartfelt longing, each is faced with the same, impending question.
What is a man supposed to do now?
In a very good condition. There is some creasing to the spine and a sticker …