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Published: 07/03/2019
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Toibin’s monumental portrait of Henry James’ creative Indian Summer is a profound meditation on the nature of genius and the perils of prizing intellectual activity over emotional connection. With psychological acuity, Toibin examines the eponymous literary master’s flaws and contradictions in lyrical prose.

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.

Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781509870530
Number of pages: 368
Weight: 272 g
Dimensions: 197 x 130 x 25 mm


MEDIA 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 Tóibín 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

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“In Loco Parenthesis”

Colm Toibin’s ‘The Master’ is a novel of extraordinary craftsmanship. Almost every paragraph contains a phrase or description that wouldn’t be out of place in the National Gallery. It is intelligent, beautiful, and,... More

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“Better than a Biography”

Utterly brilliant. Colm Tóibín is the master.

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