{"product_id":"krauss-nicole-to-be-a-man-9780062431028","title":"To Be a Man","description":"O, The Oprah Magazine's 20 Best Titles of the Year Time Magazine's 100 Books to Read in 2020  Financial Times' Best Books of 2020 Esquire's Best Books of 2020 New York Times Editors' Choice Lit Hub's Best Books of\n\u003cbr\u003e\n2020\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nBustle's Best Short Story Collections of 2020 Electric Literature's Favorite Short Story Collections of 2020 Library Journal's Best Short Stories of 2020 “Superb. . . . Krauss’s\n\u003cbr\u003e\ndepictions of the nuances of sex and love, intimacy and dependence, call to\n\u003cbr\u003e\nmind the work of Natalia Ginzburg in their psychological profundity, their\n\u003cbr\u003e\nintellectual rigor. . . . Krauss’s stories capture characters at moments in their\n\u003cbr\u003e\nlives when they’re hungry for experience and open to possibilities, and that\n\u003cbr\u003e\nopenness extends to the stories themselves: narratives too urgent and alive for\n\u003cbr\u003e\nneat plotlines, simplistic resolutions or easy\n\u003cbr\u003e\nanswers.”  —Molly Antopol, New York Times Book Review  “From\n\u003cbr\u003e\na contemporary master, an astounding collection of ten globetrotting stories,\n\u003cbr\u003e\neach one a powerful dissection of the thorny connections between men and\n\u003cbr\u003e\nwomen. . . . Each story is masterfully crafted and deeply contemplative, barreling\n\u003cbr\u003e\ntoward a shimmering, inevitable conclusion, proving once again that Krauss is\n\u003cbr\u003e\none of our most formidable talents in fiction.” —Esquire In one of her strongest works of fiction yet, Nicole Krauss plunges fearlessly into the struggle to understand what it is to be a man and what it is to be a woman, and the arising tensions that have existed from the very beginning of time. Set in our contemporary moment, and moving across the globe from Switzerland, Japan, and New York City to Tel Aviv, Los Angeles, and South America, the stories in To Be a Man feature male characters as fathers, lovers, friends, children, seducers, and even a lost husband who may never have been a husband at all.  The way these stories mirror one other and resonate is beautiful, with a balance so finely tuned that the book almost feels like a novel. Echoes ring through stages of life: aging parents and new-born babies; young women’s coming of age and the newfound, somewhat bewildering sexual power that accompanies it; generational gaps and unexpected deliveries of strange new leases on life; mystery and wonder at a life lived or a future waiting to unfold. To Be a Man illuminates with a fierce, unwavering light the forces driving human existence: sex, power, violence, passion, self-discovery, growing older. Profound, poignant, and brilliant, Krauss’s stories are at once startling and deeply moving, but always revealing of all-too-human weakness and strength. ","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Used - very good","offer_id":53431126098262,"sku":"9780062431028-V","price":6.89,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9780062431028_1_81a772d6-b13f-4836-8800-08fe3f491202.jpg?v=1778022936","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/krauss-nicole-to-be-a-man-9780062431028","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}