The Master - Softcover

Toibin, Colm

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0743250419 ISBN 13: 9780743250412

Publisher: Scribner Book Company, 2005

Synopsis

"Colm Tóibín's beautiful, subtle illumination of Henry James's inner life" (The New York Times) captures the loneliness and hope of a master of psychological subtlety whose forays into intimacy inevitably fail those he tried to love.

Beautiful and profoundly moving, The Master tells the story of Henry James, a man born into one of America's first intellectual families who leaves his country in the late nineteenth century to live in Paris, Rome, Venice, and London among privileged artists and writers. With stunningly resonant prose, "The Master is unquestionably the work of a first-rate novelist: artful, moving, and very beautiful" (The New York Times Book Review). The emotional intensity of this portrait is riveting.

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Review:

"The work of a first-rate novelist artful, moving and very beautiful."
-- The New York Times Book Review

"A deep, lovely, and enthralling book that engages with the disquiet and drama of a famous writing life."
-- Shirley Hazzard, author of The Great Fire

"A spectacular novel."
-- Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones

"A gorgeous portrait of a complex and passionate man."
-- Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran

"A marvel."
-- John Updike, The New Yorker

"Tóibín takes us almost shockingly close to the mystery of art itself. A remarkable, utterly original book."
-- Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours

Book Description:

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2004, a remarkable novel about Henry James, the American-born novelist and a connoisseur of exile.

About this edition

• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0743250419
• ISBN 13: 9780743250412
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 338