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The Rest of Our Lives

by Ben Markovits

Booker Prize · 2025 · Shortlist
Faber and Faberliterary-fiction

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Booker Prize2025Shortlist

About This Book

A retired basketball player and his family navigate the transition from athletic celebrity to ordinary life in contemporary America. A quietly devastating portrait of achievement, decline, and love.

About the Author

Ben MarkovitsAmerican-British

Ben Markovits is an American-British novelist born in San Francisco in 1973. He grew up partly in Germany and has taught in Texas and London. His early novels included a trilogy about Lord Byron. Read more →

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