Colm Toíbín

The Master

Winner of The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2006. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2004

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Produktbeschreibung

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 Tóibín 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.

Produktdetails

• Picador Classic
• Verlag: Picador
• 28. repr.
• Seitenzahl: 359
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahren
• Erscheinungstermin: April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm
• Gewicht: 256g
• ISBN-13: 9780330485661
• ISBN-10: 0330485660
• Artikelnr.: 13164555

Autorenporträt

Toibin, Colm
Colm Tóibín was born in Enniscorthy in 1955. He is the author of nine novels including The Master, Brooklyn, The Testament of Mary and Nora Webster. His work has been shortlisted for the Booker three times, has won the Costa Novel Award and the Impac Award. His most recent novel is House of Names. He has also published two collections of stories and many works of non-fiction, including Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Father of Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce (Penguin, October 2018). He lives in Dublin.

Rezensionen

An audacious, profound, and wonderfully intelligent book. Hermione Lee Guardian