A Man in Love
My Struggle Book 2
$24.63
- Paperback
672 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2013
Summary
An electrifying story about love and new life from the international phenomenon, Karl Ove Knausgaard.
This is a book about leaving your wife and everything you know. It is about fresh starts, about love, about friendship. It is also about the earth-shattering experience of becoming a father, the mundane struggles of family life, ridiculously unsuccessful holidays, humiliating antenatal music classes, fights with quarrelsome neighbours, the emotional strains of childrens’ birthday part…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099555179 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099555174 |
| Author: | Don Bartlett, Karl Ove Knausgaard |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 672 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2013 |
| Weight: | 488g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 36mm |
| Series: | My Struggle |
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Critics Review
A stunningly eloquent set of reflections on masculinity, domesticity and the artist’s itch to escape
Knausgaard…is a master of capturing the mundane. By paying particular attention to the minutia which makes up a life, he awards it the respect it deserves… unputdownable * Wallpaper *
A stunningly eloquent set of reflections on masculinity, domesticity and the artist’s itch to escape – Boyd Tonkin * Independent *
Compelling, rewarding, maddening…breathtaking * Observer *
My favourite book of the year… He has the ability to make the small details of his life fascinating – William Leith * Spectator *
Shocking and compulsive * Dazed & Confused *
This is a reading experience like no other. Fearless in its truth-telling and as real as life, it is an epic study of what it feels like to be alive – Carys Davies * Metro *
About The Author
Don Bartlett
Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle cycle has been heralded as a masterpiece all over the world. From A Death in the Family to The End, the novels move through childhood into adulthood and, together, form an enthralling portrait of human life. Knausgaard has been awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature, the Brage Prize and the Jerusalem Prize. His work, which also includes the Seasons Quartet and the Morning Star sequence (The Morning Star, The Wolves of Eternity, The Third Realm and The School of Night) is published in thirty-six languages.
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