The Master - Hardcover

Toibin, Colm

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0771085826 ISBN 13: 9780771085826

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart, 2004

Synopsis

An international literary sensation, Colm Tóibín’s brilliant and profoundly moving novel tells the story of celebrated writer Henry James. While delving back into James’s past, the narrative’s present day takes place over the course of five significant years in the author’s life, during which he produced a sequence of major novels that came into being at a high personal cost. In stunningly resonant prose, Tóibín captures nineteenth-century European landscapes and 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. Time and again, James, a master of psychological subtlety in his fiction, proves blind to his own heart. In The Master, Colm Tóibín has written his most powerful novel, one that enters the mind and soul of Henry James, the man and the writer, to give us a true portrait of the artist.

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Review:

Exquisitely crafted and full on finely nuanced psychological observation. It is profoundly moving. -- Independent

Hastings creates a compelling picture of the end of the Third Reich. Armageddon is a triumph, raw and powerful. -- Gary Sheffield in BBC history magazine

In its quiet way, this novel's imaginative truthfulness crosses boundaries and challenges biographers. -- Anne Chisholm in Sunday Telegraph, November 2004

‘Toibin makes James seem more human than, for me, Leon Edel’s famous biography ever did.’ -- John Carey, Sunday Times

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: McClelland & Stewart
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0771085826
• ISBN 13: 9780771085826
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352