The Master

"Colm T?ib?n's beautiful, subtle illumination of Henry James's inner life" (The New York Times) captures the loneliness and hope of a master of psychological subtlety whose forays into intimacy inevitably fail those he tried to love.

Beautiful and profoundly moving, The Master tells the story of Henry James, a man born into one of America's first intellectual families who leaves his country in the late nineteenth century to live in Paris, Rome, Venice, and London among privileged artists and writers.

The emotional intensity of T?ib?n'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. With stunningly resonant prose, "The Master is unquestionably the work of a first-rate novelist: artful, moving, and very beautiful" (The New York Times Book Review).

Author: Colm Toibin
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 05/03/2005
Pages: 338
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780743250412
ISBN10: 0743250419
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Family Life | General

About the Author
Colm T?ib?n is the author of eleven novels, including Long Island, an Oprah's 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; 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 was named the 2022-2024 Laureate for Irish Fiction by the Arts Council of Ireland. He was shortlisted three times for the Booker Prize. He was also awarded the Bodley Medal, the W?rth Prize for European Literature, and the Prix Femina sp?cial for his body of work.