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Colm Toibin - The Magician (2nd Hand Paperback)
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Synopsis
Sunday Times Bestseller & Multi-award Winner.
From one of our greatest living writers comes a sweeping novel of unrequited love and exile, war and family.
The Magician tells the story of Thomas Mann, whose life was filled with great acclaim and contradiction. He would find himself on the wrong side of history in the First World War, cheerleading the German army, but have a clear vision of the future in the second, anticipating the horrors of Nazism.
He would have six children and keep his homosexuality hidden; he was a man forever connected to his family and yet bore witness to the ravages of suicide. He would write some of the greatest works of European literature, and win the Nobel Prize, but would never return to the country that inspired his creativity.
Through one life, Colm Tóibín tells the breathtaking story of the twentieth century.
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- Format : Thicker 2nd Hand Paperback
- Condition : Very Good (Almost As New)
- Category : Fiction - Families & Sagas
- Published : 2022 (Penguin Random House)
- ISBN : 9780241970584
- SKU : B002921
- PPC : SP400gm
- RRP : £8.99
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
External 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.
'No living novelist dramatizes artistic creation as profoundly, as luminously, as Colm Toibin . . . reading him is among the deepest pleasures our literature can offer' - Garth Greenwell.
'This is not just a whole life in a novel, it's a whole world' - Katharina Volckmer.
"Sumptuous and satisfying." - The Times, A Best Fiction Book of 2021.
"The Magician, recreates as biographical fiction the life, thoughts and achievements of Thomas Mann. It is dark, beautifully constructed and, I think, as near as one author can get to entering the mind of another." - Melvyn Bragg, New Statesman, Books of the Year.
"The Magician uses the life of Thomas Mann to explore the complex relationships between intimacy and history, public and private lives, and the slippery nature of creativity itself. I found it mesmerising." - Fintan O'Toole, New Statesman, Books of the Year.
The Author
Colm Tóibín FRSL, is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, critic, and poet. Tóibín is currently Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University in Manhattan and succeeded Martin Amis as professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester.
Featured Author . . . Colm Toibin