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The Master

The Master

Toibin, Colm

Hardcover

Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 0743250400
ISBN13: 9780743250405
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.24
Height: 1.13 Width: 6.34 Depth: 9.24
Language: English
Awards: Book Sense Book of the Year Award, L.A. Times Book Prize, Lambda Literary Awards, Man Booker Prize, Stonewall Book Award, Triangle Awards
Like Michael Cunningham in The Hours, Colm Toibin captures the extraordinary mind and heart of a great writer. Brilliant and profoundly moving, The Master tells the story of Henry James, a man born into one of America's first intellectual families two decades before the Civil War. James left his country to live in Paris, Rome, Venice, and London among privileged artists and writers.

In stunningly resonant prose, Toibin captures the loneliness and longing, the hope and despair of a man who never married, never resolved his sexual identity, and whose forays into intimacy inevitably failed him and those he tried to love. The emotional intensity of Toibin's portrait of James is riveting. Time and again, James, a master of psychological subtlety in his fiction, proves blind to his own heart and incapable of reconciling his dreams of passion with his own fragility.

Toibin is a great and humanizing writer who describes complex relationships in supple, beautifully modulated prose (The Washington Post Book World). In The Master, he has written his most ambitious and heartbreaking novel, an extraordinarily inventive encounter with a character at the cusp of the modern age, elusive to his own friends and even family, yet astonishingly vivid in these pages.

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