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Product Details
Scribner, May 2004
Hardcover, 352 pages
ISBN-10: 0743250400
ISBN-13: 9780743250405
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- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction
- New York Times Book Review Ten Best Books of the Year
Description
Like Michael Cunningham in The Hours, Colm Tóibín captures the extraordinary mind and heart of a great writer. Beautiful and profoundly moving, The Master tells the story of 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.
In stunningly resonant prose, Tóibín captures the loneliness and the hope of a master of psychological subtlety whose forays into intimacy inevitably failed those he tried to love. The emotional intensity of this portrait is riveting.
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Browse Inside The Master"The work of a first-rate novelist artful, moving and very beautiful."
-- The New York Times Book Review
"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
"Tóibín takes us almost shockingly close to the mystery of art itself. A remarkable, utterly original book."
-- Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours
"A marvel."
-- John Updike, The New Yorker
"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
The GuardianThis is an audacious, profound, and wonderfully intelligent book.
The ObserverA sympathetic and triumphant novel of startling excellence...The Master is a portrait of Henry James that has the depth and finish of great sculpture.
The Times Literary SupplementImpressive and moving...the novel grapples with what it means to really live....The Master is a lovely portrait of the artist, rich in fictional truth.
Sunday Times ReviewTóibín's enthralling novel displays -- in a manner that is masterly
-- the wit and metaphorical flair, psychological subtlety and phrases of pouncing incisiveness with which a great novelist captured the nuances of consciousness and duplicities of society.
Regina Leader-Post, December 26, 2010
...The 2011 publishing season promises a bumper crop of great fiction, with a new story collection by Irish master Colm Toibin and a posthumous novel by David Foster Wallace, that tragic giant of American letters, already topping many readersâ ...
Vancouver Sun, December 20, 2010
...The 2011 publishing season promises a bumper crop of great fiction, with a new story collection by Irish master Colm Toibin and a posthumous novel by David Foster Wallace, that tragic giant of American letters, already topping many ...
Vancouver Sun, December 19, 2010
...The 2011 publishing season promises a bumper crop of great fiction, with a new story collection by Irish master Colm Toibin and a posthumous novel by David Foster Wallace, that tragic giant of American letters, already topping many ...
Waikato Times, December 12, 2010
...and important new approach to the meaning of Parihaka and its long aftermath. FICTION The Empty Family by Colm Toibin (Picador) Lyrical tales of exile and regret that manage to tell us so much more about the world. Nemesis by Philip Roth ...
Irish Independent, December 11, 2010
...best Irish novelists were also quiet this year, with no new full-length fiction from John Banville, Colum McCann, Colm Toibin nor Anne Enright, though there were novels from such other established figures as Joseph O'Connor, Hugo Hamilton ...
Colgate Maroon News, December 2, 2010
...including the novels Accidents in the Home in 2002, Everything Will Be All Right in 2003 and The Master Bedroom in 2007. In 2007, she also authored Sunstroke, a collection of ten short stories that students in the Living Writers course ...
New York Times, November 27, 2010
...life, during which the dissolute poet disappeared from sight, for his literary thriller The Poe Shadow. In The Master, Colm Toibin chose the little-examined years when Henry James tried writing for the theater as an opening for his own ...
Columbus Dispatch, May 9, 2009
...based (kind of) on the life of Charlie Chaplin. â?¢ Road Dogs by Elmore Leonard (Morrow): The grand master of lowlife dialogue returns several of his characters to the thriller stage, including Jack Foley, the celebrity bank robber played ...
Columbus Dispatch, May 9, 2009
...based (kind of) on the life of Charlie Chaplin. â?¢ Road Dogs by Elmore Leonard (Morrow): The grand master of lowlife dialogue returns several of his characters to the thriller stage, including Jack Foley, the celebrity bank robber played ...
In The News.co.uk, March 1, 2009
... Colm Toibin admits to being more interested in money than writing One of the world's top authors has admitted to being more interested in the money his books generate ...
Colm Toibin's Books
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Mothers and SonsEach of the nine stories in this beautifully written, intensely intimate collection centers on a transformative moment that alters the delicate...Read More
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The Story of the NightA daring and deeply moving novel set in Argentina in the time of the Generals--a time when the streets are empty at night, and people have trained...Read More
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Love in a Dark TimeColm Tóibín knows the languages of the outsider, the secret keeper, the gay man or woman. He knows the covert and overt language of...Read More
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The Blackwater LightshipIt is Ireland in the early 1990s. Helen, her mother, Lily, and her grandmother, Dora have come together to tend to Helen's brother, Declan, who is...Read More
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New Ways to Kill Your MotherA provocative, illuminating and effortlessly original collection of essays about famous writers' relationships to their families and work.Read More
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