The Master

Toibin, Colm

ISBN 10: 0743250400 / ISBN 13: 9780743250405

Verlag: Scribner, 2004

Beschreibung

Hardcover. Hardcover condition: Near Fine. Dustjacket condition: Fine. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover Near Fine with mild shelf wear and a slight water stain to the front bottom edge, inside bottom edge, and slightly on the fep, and a very slight 1/4" stain to the top edge of the text block, otherwise fine. The dustjacket has a slight soil abrasion on the lower left front corner and mild shelf wear, else fine, not price-clipped, and mylar protected.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1744342411382

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Master
• Verlag: Scribner
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0743250400
• ISBN-13: 9780743250405
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1st Edition
• Zustand: Near Fine
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine
• Gewicht: 22 Unzen

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Inhaltsangabe

Like Michael Cunningham in "The Hours, " Colm Toibin captures the extraordinary mind and heart of a great writer. Brilliant and profoundly moving, "The Master" tells the story of Henry James, a man born into one of America's first intellectual families two decades before the Civil War. James left his country to live in Paris, Rome, Venice, and London among privileged artists and writers. In stunningly resonant prose, Toibin captures 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. The emotional intensity of Toibin's portrait of James is riveting. Time and again, James, a master of psychological subtlety in his fiction, proves blind to his own heart and incapable of reconciling his dreams of passion with his own fragility. Toibin is "a great and humanizing writer" who describes complex relationships in "supple, beautifully modulated prose" ("The Washington Post Book World"). In "The Master, " he has written his most ambitious and heartbreaking novel, an extraordinarily inventive encounter with a character at the cusp of the modern age, elusive to his own friends and even family, yet astonishingly vivid in these pages.

Críticas

"A marvel." -- John Updike, "The New Yorker"