The Master by Colm Toibin
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.-
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American Psycho
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The Long View
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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The Lovely Bones
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Cloudstreet
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Essays In Love
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Dispatches
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An Unquiet Mind
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Silence
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The Patrick Melrose Novels
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Blood Meridian
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Red Dust Road
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Bridget Jones's Diary
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Four Letters Of Love
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The Master and Margarita
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A House for Mr Biswas
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Waterland
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The South
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The Butcher Boy
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
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Into the Wild
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The Debt To Pleasure
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The Discovery of France
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The History Man
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Them: Adventures with Extremists
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Oreo
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Gomorrah
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The Idea of Perfection
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A Sport and a Pastime
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A Boy's Own Story
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Underworld
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The Man Without Qualities
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The Snow Geese
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The Blackwater Lightship
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Long Island (Oprah's Book Club)
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Homage to Barcelona
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Brooklyn
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House of Names
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The Irish Famine
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Vinegar Hill
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The Magician
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Bad Blood
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The Sign of the Cross
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Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know
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On James Baldwin
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Mothers and Sons
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The Story of the Night
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The South
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The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction
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Soho Square
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Lady Gregory's Toothbrush
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 TóibÃn 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
A marvel of lightly worn research and modulated tone. -- John Updike * New Yorker *
A must read. Colm TóibÃn 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
Colm TóibÃn is the author of eleven novels, including The Master, Brooklyn and its sequel Long Island, and The Magician, and three collections of stories. He has been three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2021, he was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature. TóibÃn was appointed the Laureate for Irish Fiction 2022-2024.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780330485661 |
| ISBN 10 | 0330485660 |
| Title | The Master |
| Author | Colm Toibin |
| Series | Picador Classic |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2005-01-21 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Man Booker Prize 2004 (UK) |
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