Toxic male behaviour of David Szalay’s protagonist reflects real-world concerns about a ‘crisis of masculinity’ Toxic male behaviour of David Szalay’s protagonist reflects real-world concerns about a ‘crisis of masculinity’ In the immediate aftermath of David Szalay’s book Flesh winning the Booker prize, one feature of the novel stood out: how often the protagonist utters the word “OK”. The 500 times István grunts out the response is part of a sparse prose style through which the British-