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A Man in Love: My Struggle: 2
Karl Ove Knausgaard
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Description for A Man in Love: My Struggle: 2
Paperback. A book about 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 parties and pushing a pram around Stockholm when all you really want to do is write. Translator(s): Bartlett, Don. Series: Knausgaard. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 34. Weight in Grams: 492.
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 parties and pushing a pram around Stockholm when all you really want to do is write. This is a book about one man's life but, somehow, about everyone else's too. `Compelling, rewarding...breathtaking' Observer
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Knausgaard
Condition
New
Number of Pages
672
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099555179
SKU
V9780099555179
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-96
About Karl Ove Knausgaard
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 Out of the World, A Time for Everything and the Seasons Quartet, is published in thirty-five languages.
Reviews for A Man in Love: My Struggle: 2
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
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