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Author: Colm Toibin
Publisher: Beacon Press
Imprint: Beacon Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.50cm
, Height: 1.60cm
, Length: 22.40cm
Weight: 0.301kg
ISBN: 9780807006535
ISBN 10: 080700653
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 12 April 2022
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
“A meditative probe into the language of ordinary days.” —The New York Times About the work of Colm Tóibín: The Magician “Tóibín’s novels typically depict an unfinished battle between those who know what they feel and those who don’t, between those who have found a taut peace within themselves and those who remain unsettled.” —D. T. Max, The New Yorker “The Magician recaptures a literary giant. . . . Symphonic and moving . . . Maximalist in scope but intimate in feeling.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times The Master: “Tóibín’s work displays the kind of depth and sensitivity that few authors can offer. . . . The result is a beautiful, haunting portrayal.” —The Christian Science Monitor “A quiet tour de force: a work of deep seriousness and sympathy that gives us a genius in his full human dimensions. . . . [This] profound novel is—dare one say it?—masterly.” —The New York Observer Brooklyn: “Tóibín . . . [is] his generation’s most gifted writer of love’s complicated, contradictory power.” —Floyd Skloot, The Los Angeles Times “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 Times Literary Supplement (UK) Nora Webster: “A high-wire act of an eighth novel . . . Tóibín’s radical restraint elevates what might have been a familiar tale of grief and survival into a realm of heightened inquiry. The result is a luminous, elliptical novel in which everyday life manages, in moments, to approach the mystical.” —Jennifer Egan, The New York Times Book Review
About the work of Colm Toibin: The Magician Toibin's novels typically depict an unfinished battle between those who know what they feel and those who don't, between those who have found a taut peace within themselves and those who remain unsettled. -D. T. Max, The New Yorker The Magician recaptures a literary giant. . . . Symphonic and moving . . . Maximalist in scope but intimate in feeling. -Dwight Garner, The New York Times The Master: Toibin's work displays the kind of depth and sensitivity that few authors can offer. . . . The result is a beautiful, haunting portrayal. -The Christian Science Monitor A quiet tour de force: a work of deep seriousness and sympathy that gives us a genius in his full human dimensions. . . . [This] profound novel is-dare one say it?-masterly. -The New York Observer Brooklyn: Toibin . . . [is] his generation's most gifted writer of love's complicated, contradictory power. -Floyd Skloot, The Los Angeles Times Reading Toibin 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 Times Literary Supplement (UK) Nora Webster: A high-wire act of an eighth novel . . . Toibin's radical restraint elevates what might have been a familiar tale of grief and survival into a realm of heightened inquiry. The result is a luminous, elliptical novel in which everyday life manages, in moments, to approach the mystical. -Jennifer Egan, The New York Times Book Review
Author Information
Colm Tóibín is an Irish novelist, essayist, playwright, and poet. He is currently the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University. He has been short-listed 3 times for the Booker Prize and has won the Los Angeles Times Novel of the Year, the Costa Novel of the Year, the Stonewall Book Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Irish PEN Award for his contribution to Irish literature. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a vice president of the Royal Society of Literature.
