The Magician: A Novel by Colm Toibin (English) Hardcover Book

Description: The Magician by Colm Toibin A New York Times Notable Book, Critics 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 todays 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 "youll find yourself savoring every page" (Vogue). FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Colm Tóibín is the author of eleven novels, including Long Island, an Oprahs Book Club Pick; The Magician, winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize; The Master, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Brooklyn, winner of the Costa Book Award; The Testament of Mary; and Nora Webster; as well as two story collections and several books of criticism. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and has been named as the Laureate for Irish Fiction for 2022-2024 by the Arts Council of Ireland. Three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Tóibín lives in Dublin and New York. Review 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 Tóibíns take on Manns personal and interior life... a stirring paean to literature and music... a magnificent achievement." --Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor "Staggering... dazzling... Youll 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 Review Quote Praise for The Magician "This vibrates with the strength of Manns visions and the sublimity of T Excerpt from Book Chapter 1: L Details ISBN1476785082 Short Title The Magician Language English ISBN-10 1476785082 ISBN-13 9781476785080 Format Hardcover Subtitle A Novel Publisher Scribner Book Company Imprint Scribner Book Company Pages 512 DEWEY 823.914 Audience General UK Release Date 2021-09-07 Author Colm Toibin Year 2021 Publication Date 2021-09-07 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:142707436;

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