My Struggle: Book Two: A Man in Love (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781935744825)

Book Two of the six-volume literary masterwork My Struggle flows with the same raw energy and candor that ignited the series' unprecedented bestselling run in Scandinavia, a virulent controversy, and an avalanche of literary awards. Knausgaard breaks down lived experience into its elementary particles, revealing the wounds and epiphanies of a truly examined life. Walking away from everything he knows in Bergen, Karl Ove finds himself in Stockholm, where he waits for the next stretch of the road to reveal itself. He strikes up a deep friendship with another exiled Norwegian, a boxing fanatic and intellectual named Geir. He reconnects with Linda, a vibrant poet who had captivated him at a writers' workshop years earlier, and the shape of his world changes. Book Two exposes the inner landscape of a man falling in love and the fraught joys and impossible predicaments he faces as a new father. We look on as he watches his life unfold. Love, rage, and beauty flood these pages. Knausgaard writes with exhilarating honesty and insight about the collection of moments that make up a life - the life of someone with an irrepressible need to write, of someone for whom art and the natural world are physical needs, of someone for whom death is always standing in the corner, of someone who craves solitude and love from the depths of his being.

Author: Karl Ove Knausgaard
ISBN-10: 1935744828
ISBN-13: 9781935744825
Publisher: Archipelago Books
Language: English
Published: 05/14/2013
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 7.60h x 6.40w x 1.90d

Review Citation(s):
Shelf Awareness 05/31/2013
New York Times Book Review 06/30/2013 pg. 26
Entertainment Weekly 07/11/2014 pg. 72
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001