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  The Master (Picador) (Paperback) By (author) Colm Toibin

  

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  Short Description for The MasterShortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2004, a remarkable novel about Henry James, the American-born novelist and a connoisseur of exile.
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  • Publisher: PICADOR
  • Published: 21 January 2005
  • Format: Paperback 368 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780330485661 ISBN 10: 0330485660
  • Sales rank: 14,761

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• 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.