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- 9781476785080
- Book Title
- Magician : a Novel
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.6 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Lgbt / Gay, Literary, Biographical, Historical
- Item Weight
- 27.4 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 512 Pages
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A New York Times Notable Book, Critic's Top Pick, and Top Ten Book of Historical Fiction Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post , NPR, Vogue , The Wall Street Journal , and Bloomberg Businessweek From one of today's most brilliant and beloved novelists, a dazzling, epic family saga set across a half-century spanning World War I, the rise of Hitler, World War II, and the Cold War that is "a feat of literary sorcery in its own right" ( Oprah Daily ). The Magician opens in a provincial German city at the turn of the twentieth century, where the boy, Thomas Mann, grows up with a conservative father, bound by propriety, and a Brazilian mother, alluring and unpredictable. Young Mann hides his artistic aspirations from his father and his homosexual desires from everyone. He is infatuated with one of the richest, most cultured Jewish families in Munich, and marries the daughter Katia. They have six children. On a holiday in Italy, he longs for a boy he sees on a beach and writes the story Death in Venice . He is the most successful novelist of his time, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, a public man whose private life remains secret. He is expected to lead the condemnation of Hitler, whom he underestimates. His oldest daughter and son, leaders of Bohemianism and of the anti-Nazi movement, share lovers. He flees Germany for Switzerland, France and, ultimately, America, living first in Princeton and then in Los Angeles. In this "exquisitely sensitive" ( The Wall Street Journal ) novel, Tóibín has crafted "a complex but empathetic portrayal of a writer in a lifelong battle against his innermost desires, his family, and the tumultuous times they endure" ( Time ), and "you'll find yourself savoring every page" ( Vogue ).
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1476785082
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9781476785080
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Book Title
Magician : a Novel
Number of Pages
512 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2021
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Lgbt / Gay, Literary, Biographical, Historical
Illustrator
Yes
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Fiction
Format
Hardcover
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Item Height
1.6 in
Item Weight
27.4 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
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Praise for The Magician "This is not just a whole life in a novel, it's a whole world - with all its wonders, tragedies and sacrifices. I loved every page of this beautiful and immersive journey into The Magician 's mind." -- Katharina Volckmer author of The Appointment 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 Praise for Brooklyn "Tóibín... [is] his generation's most gifted writer of love's complicated, contradictory power." --Floyd Skoot, Los Angeles Times "A classical coming-of-age story, pure, unsensationalized, quietly profound... There are no antagonists in this novel, no psychodramas, no angst. There is only the sound of a young woman slowly and deliberately stepping into herself, learning to make and stand behind her choices, finding herself." --Pam Houston, O, the Oprah Magazine "Reading Tóibín is like watching an artist paint one small stroke after another until suddenly the finished picture emerges to shattering effect.... Brooklyn stands comparison with Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady ." -- The Literary Times Supplement "[A] triumph... One of those magically quiet novels that sneak up on readers and capture their emotions." -- USA Today, Praise for The Magician "As with his triumphant fictional biography of Henry James, The Master (2004), Tóibín once again takes as his subject a literary titan, the Nobel laureate Thomas Mann ... Employing luxurious prose that quietly evokes the tortured soul behind these literary masterpieces, Tóibín has an unequalled gift for mapping the interior of genius. In Mann, Toibin finds the ideal muse, one whose interior is so rich and vast that only a similar genius could hope to capture it." --Booklist, starred review "As with everything Colm Toibin sets his masterful hand to, The Magician is a great imaginative achievement -- immensely readable, erudite, worldly and knowing, and fully realized." -- Richard Ford "This is not just a whole life in a novel, it's a whole world - with all its wonders, tragedies and sacrifices. I loved every page of this beautiful and immersive journey into The Magician 's mind." -- Katharina Volckmer author of The Appointment 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 Praise for Brooklyn "Tóibín... [is] his generation's most gifted writer of love's complicated, contradictory power." --Floyd Skoot, Los Angeles Times "A classical coming-of-age story, pure, unsensationalized, quietly profound... There are no antagonists in this novel, no psychodramas, no angst. There is only the sound of a young woman slowly and deliberately stepping into herself, learning to make and stand behind her choices, finding herself." --Pam Houston, O, the Oprah Magazine "Reading Tóibín is like watching an artist paint one small stroke after another until suddenly the finished picture emerges to shattering effect.... Brooklyn stands comparison with Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady ." -- The Literary Times Supplement "[A] triumph... One of those magically quiet novels that sneak up on readers and capture their emotions." -- USA Today, Praise for The Magician "The personal and public history is compelling ... Tóibín succeeds in conveying his fascination with the Magician, as his children called him, who could make sexual secrets vanish beneath a rich surface life of family and uncommon art. [ The Magician is] an intriguing view of a writer who well deserves another turn on the literary stage." --Kirkus , starred review "As with his triumphant fictional biography of Henry James, The Master (2004), Tóibín once again takes as his subject a literary titan, the Nobel laureate Thomas Mann ... Employing luxurious prose that quietly evokes the tortured soul behind these literary masterpieces, Tóibín has an unequalled gift for mapping the interior of genius. In Mann, Toibin finds the ideal muse, one whose interior is so rich and vast that only a similar genius could hope to capture it." --Booklist, starred review "As with everything Colm Toibin sets his masterful hand to, The Magician is a great imaginative achievement -- immensely readable, erudite, worldly and knowing, and fully realized." -- Richard Ford "This is not just a whole life in a novel, it's a whole world - with all its wonders, tragedies and sacrifices. I loved every page of this beautiful and immersive journey into The Magician 's mind." -- Katharina Volckmer author of The Appointment 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 Praise for Brooklyn "Tóibín... [is] his generation's most gifted writer of love's complicated, contradictory power." --Floyd Skoot, Los Angeles Times "A classical coming-of-age story, pure, unsensationalized, quietly profound... There are no antagonists in this novel, no psychodramas, no angst. There is only the sound of a young woman slowly and deliberately stepping into herself, learning to make and stand behind her choices, finding herself." --Pam Houston, O, the Oprah Magazine "Reading Tóibín is like watching an artist paint one small stroke after another until suddenly the finished picture emerges to shattering effect.... Brooklyn stands comparison with Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady ." -- The Literary Times Supplement "[A] triumph... One of those magically quiet novels that sneak up on readers and capture their emotions." -- USA Today, Praise for The Magician "Marvelously executed and absorbing..." --Joy Williams, Book Post "Maximalist in scope but intimate in feeling..." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times "A work of huge imaginative sympathy...quite thrilling... an epic story of exile and literary grandeur." --Jay Parini, The New York Times Book Review "An incisive and witty novel that shows what good company the Nobelist and his family might have been... vividly alive..." --Dennis Drabelle, The Washington Post "Powerful... The Magician masterfully weaves together Tóibín's take on Mann's personal and interior life... a stirring paean to literature and music... a magnificent achievement." --Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor "Staggering... dazzling... You'll find yourself savoring every page." --Vogue "A complex but empathetic portrayal of a writer in a lifelong battle against his innermost desires, his family and the tumultuous times they endure." -- Time "An ode to a 20th-century genius and a feat of literary sorcery in its own right." -- O Magazine "An intimate portrait of Thomas Mann... In The Magician, Tóibín presents a rare view into the making of serious art and, in the process, shows he is a powerful magician himself." -- Chicago Review of Books "Compelling... This is an enormously ambitious book, one in which the intimate and the momentous are exquisitely balanced...Tóibín has fashioned an epic." -- The Guardian, Praise for The Magician "The tenth novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Master and Brooklyn is an intimate portrait of one of the 20th century''s most intriguing literary figures: Thomas Mann. As he did with Henry James in 2004''s The Master , Tóibin blends the factual with the imagined--following Mann and his complex family through the first world war, the rise of Hitler, World War II, and exile--to conjure the rich inner life, and repressed sexuality, of a man ''whose gift is unparalleled and whose life is driven by a need to belong and the anguish of illicit desire.''" --LitHub "This vibrates with the strength of Mann''s visions and the sublimity of Tóibín''s mellifluous prose. Tóibín has surpassed himself." --Publisher''s Weekly, starred "The personal and public history is compelling ... Tóibín succeeds in conveying his fascination with the Magician, as his children called him, who could make sexual secrets vanish beneath a rich surface life of family and uncommon art. [ The Magician is] an intriguing view of a writer who well deserves another turn on the literary stage." --Kirkus , starred review "As with his triumphant fictional biography of Henry James, The Master (2004), Tóibín once again takes as his subject a literary titan, the Nobel laureate Thomas Mann ... Employing luxurious prose that quietly evokes the tortured soul behind these literary masterpieces, Tóibín has an unequalled gift for mapping the interior of genius. In Mann, Toibin finds the ideal muse, one whose interior is so rich and vast that only a similar genius could hope to capture it." --Booklist, starred review "As with everything Colm Toibin sets his masterful hand to, The Magician is a great imaginative achievement -- immensely readable, erudite, worldly and knowing, and fully realized." -- Richard Ford "This is not just a whole life in a novel, it''s a whole world - with all its wonders, tragedies and sacrifices. I loved every page of this beautiful and immersive journey into The Magician ''s mind." -- Katharina Volckmer author of The Appointment 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 Praise for Brooklyn "Tóibín... [is] his generation''s most gifted writer of love''s complicated, contradictory power." --Floyd Skoot, Los Angeles Times "A classical coming-of-age story, pure, unsensationalized, quietly profound... There are no antagonists in this novel, no psychodramas, no angst. There is only the sound of a young woman slowly and deliberately stepping into herself, learning to make and stand behind her choices, finding herself." --Pam Houston, O, the Oprah Magazine "Reading Tóibín is like watching an artist paint one small stroke after another until suddenly the finished picture emerges to shattering effect.... Brooklyn stands comparison with Henry James''s The Portrait of a Lady ." -- The Literary Times Supplement "[A] triumph... One of those magically quiet novels that sneak up on readers and capture their emotions." -- USA Today, Praise for The Magician "As with everything Colm Toibin sets his masterful hand to, The Magician is a great imaginative achievement -- immensely readable, erudite, worldly and knowing, and fully realized." -- Richard Ford "This is not just a whole life in a novel, it's a whole world - with all its wonders, tragedies and sacrifices. I loved every page of this beautiful and immersive journey into The Magician 's mind." -- Katharina Volckmer author of The Appointment 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 Praise for Brooklyn "Tóibín... [is] his generation's most gifted writer of love's complicated, contradictory power." --Floyd Skoot, Los Angeles Times "A classical coming-of-age story, pure, unsensationalized, quietly profound... There are no antagonists in this novel, no psychodramas, no angst. There is only the sound of a young woman slowly and deliberately stepping into herself, learning to make and stand behind her choices, finding herself." --Pam Houston, O, the Oprah Magazine "Reading Tóibín is like watching an artist paint one small stroke after another until suddenly the finished picture emerges to shattering effect.... Brooklyn stands comparison with Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady ." -- The Literary Times Supplement "[A] triumph... One of those magically quiet novels that sneak up on readers and capture their emotions." -- USA Today, Praise for The Magician "This vibrates with the strength of Mann's visions and the sublimity of Tóibín's mellifluous prose. Tóibín has surpassed himself." --Publisher's Weekly, starred "The personal and public history is compelling ... Tóibín succeeds in conveying his fascination with the Magician, as his children called him, who could make sexual secrets vanish beneath a rich surface life of family and uncommon art. [ The Magician is] an intriguing view of a writer who well deserves another turn on the literary stage." --Kirkus , starred review "As with his triumphant fictional biography of Henry James, The Master (2004), Tóibín once again takes as his subject a literary titan, the Nobel laureate Thomas Mann ... Employing luxurious prose that quietly evokes the tortured soul behind these literary masterpieces, Tóibín has an unequalled gift for mapping the interior of genius. In Mann, Toibin finds the ideal muse, one whose interior is so rich and vast that only a similar genius could hope to capture it." --Booklist, starred review "As with everything Colm Toibin sets his masterful hand to, The Magician is a great imaginative achievement -- immensely readable, erudite, worldly and knowing, and fully realized." -- Richard Ford "This is not just a whole life in a novel, it's a whole world - with all its wonders, tragedies and sacrifices. I loved every page of this beautiful and immersive journey into The Magician 's mind." -- Katharina Volckmer author of The Appointment 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 Praise for Brooklyn "Tóibín... [is] his generation's most gifted writer of love's complicated, contradictory power." --Floyd Skoot, Los Angeles Times "A classical coming-of-age story, pure, unsensationalized, quietly profound... There are no antagonists in this novel, no psychodramas, no angst. There is only the sound of a young woman slowly and deliberately stepping into herself, learning to make and stand behind her choices, finding herself." --Pam Houston, O, the Oprah Magazine "Reading Tóibín is like watching an artist paint one small stroke after another until suddenly the finished picture emerges to shattering effect.... Brooklyn stands comparison with Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady ." -- The Literary Times Supplement "[A] triumph... One of those magically quiet novels that sneak up on readers and capture their emotions." -- USA Today
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