The Master

By Colm Toibin
(Scribner, Paperback, 9780743250412, 352pp.)

Publication Date: April 19, 2005

Other Editions of This Title: Hardcover

Categories: Historical - General, Literary

Selected by Indie Booksellers for the Spring/Summer '09 Reading Group List

“Henry James is one of the masters of American fiction, and in this wonderful new book Toibin works magic, conjuring images of the author in unforgettable prose, evoking not just the man, but his writing as well. The result is a brilliant, believable (fictional) portrait of a most remarkable man.”

-- Kathy Ashton, The King's English, Salt Lake City, UT

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.

About the Author

Colm TÓibÍn was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of six novels including The Blackwater Lightship, The Master, winner of a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Brooklyn, winner of a Costa Book Award. Twice shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, TÓibÍn lives in Dublin and New York.

Praise For 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

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