The Master

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Master
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Colm Toibin
SeriesPicador Classic
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:368
Dimensions(mm): Height 197,Width 130
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9781509870530
ClassificationsDewey:823.914
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Pan Macmillan
Imprint Picador
Publication Date 7 March 2019
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

With an introduction by award-winning novelist Tessa Hadley In January 1895 Henry James anticipates the opening of his first play, Guy Domville, in London. The production fails, and he returns, chastened and humiliated, to his writing desk. The result is a string of masterpieces, but they are produced at a high personal cost. In The Master Colm Toibin captures the exquisite anguish of a man who circulated in the grand parlours and palazzos of Europe, who was astonishingly vibrant and alive in his art, and yet whose attempts at intimacy inevitably failed him and those he tried to love. It is a powerful account of the hazards of putting the life of the mind before affairs of the heart.

Author Biography

Colm Toibin was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of several novels, including Brooklyn, the 2009 Costa Novel of the Year, The Master, which was shortlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize and winner of the LA Times Book Prize and the IMPAC Book Award, and The Blackwater Lightship, which was shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize and the 2001 IMPAC Award. His non-fiction includes Bad Blood, Homage to Barcelona, The Sign of the Cross and Love in a Dark Time. His work has been translated into seventeen languages. He lives in Dublin.

Reviews

An audacious, profound, and wonderfully intelligent book. -- Hermione Lee * Guardian * A marvel of lightly worn research and modulated tone. -- John Updike * New Yorker * A must read. Colm Toibin has not only written a spectacular novel he has found a way to pay tribute to Henry James. We should all be so gifted and so lucky. -- Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones and Lucky