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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. This title presents an account of the hazards of putting the life of the mind before affairs of the heart.Read More

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  • TheBookPeople

    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.

  • Blackwell

    Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2004, a remarkable novel about Henry James, the American-born novelist and a connoisseur of exile. In January 1895 Henry James anticipates the opening of his first play, Guy Domville, in London. The production...

  • 0330485660
  • 9780330485661
  • Colm Toibin
  • 21 January 2005
  • Picador
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 200
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