All This

About This Novel

The story begins on a ship sailing to Okinawa at the end of World War II. The protagonist Philip Bowman is a young naval officer. Over the next few decades, he returned to New York and became a publishing editor, settling into a life of book deals, literary careers, and one dinner party after another. He married and divorced, experienced new relationships, recurring physical passions, and brutal betrayals. Old friends drift apart, houses are bought and sold, parents die, and loving bonds fade and fade. When we last see Bowman, he has reached an age where he is seriously thinking about death: he wants to return to the Pacific, where "the only brave part of his life was." "All This" is the life trajectory of an ordinary person, and it is also a rich social chronicle. The narrative perspective switches freely between the protagonist and dozens of characters. A large number of insightful details give it an epic quality. The scenes, episodes and characters are as precise and neat as diamond cutouts. The story and the emotions it contains continue to expand and spread, reflecting the outline of the lives of all the characters who appear in the passage of time.

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