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The Master

By Colm Toibin

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| Paperback | 9780330485661

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Like Michael Cunningham in The Hours, Colm Tóibín captures the extraordinary mind and heart of a great writer. Beautiful and profoundly moving, The Master tells the story of a man born into one of America's first intellectual families who leaves his country in the late nineteenth century to live in Continue

Like Michael Cunningham in The Hours, Colm Tóibín captures the extraordinary mind and heart of a great writer. Beautiful and profoundly moving, The Master tells the story of 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.

In stunningly resonant prose, Tóibín captures the loneliness and the hope of a master of psychological subtlety whose forays into intimacy inevitably failed those he tried to love. The emotional intensity of this portrait is riveting.

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  • In his master's voice

    The Master by Colm Tóibín Picador £16.99, pp360 There's little in Colm Tóibín's previous work, to some of which this reviewer has been immune or even mildly allergic, to prepare for the startling excellence of his new novel. The Master is a portrait ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  • Colm so great cultural ambassador

    After having met Colm so many times at book presentations in Dublin, and lately also at UCD talking about short stories, Denise decided to get me the Master. Apparently the masterpiece of Toibin. Or at least what it seems to be the most awarded of his books. Such a lovely man in person, a great gift ... (continue)

    After having met Colm so many times at book presentations in Dublin, and lately also at UCD talking about short stories, Denise decided to get me the Master. Apparently the masterpiece of Toibin. Or at least what it seems to be the most awarded of his books. Such a lovely man in person, a great gifted speaker.

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