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Original Title:	The Master
ISBN:	0743250419 (ISBN13: 9780743250412)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Henry James
Setting:	London, England,1895(United Kingdom) Rye, East Sussex, England(United Kingdom)
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee (2004), Stonewall Book Award for Literature (2005), Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (2004), Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger for Roman (2005), International Dublin Literary Award (2006)

The Master

Colm Tóibín

Paperback | Pages: 339 pages

Rating: 3.83 | 8622 Users | 965 Reviews

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Title	:	The Master
Author	:	Colm Tóibín
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 339 pages
Published	:	May 3rd 2005 by Scribner (first published March 14th 2004)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. European Literature. Irish Literature. Cultural. Ireland. Literary Fiction. Novels

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“Colm Tóibín’s beautiful, subtle illumination of Henry James’s inner life” (The New York Times) captures the loneliness and hope of a master of psychological subtlety whose forays into intimacy inevitably fail those he tried to love.

Beautiful and profoundly moving, The Master tells the story of Henry James, 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. With stunningly resonant prose, “The Master is unquestionably the work of a first-rate novelist: artful, moving, and very beautiful” (The New York Times Book Review). The emotional intensity of this portrait is riveting.

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I had this on my TBR list way too long! An excellent book by Colm Toibin giving a fictionalized account of Henry Jame's life. I loved the style Toibin used selecting interesting and/or significant events/people/places in James's life.

This book belongs to that genre of literary novels which create an imagined life (based heavily on research) for an historical character, in this case, the great novelist, Henry James. (Because there are other James family members appearing throughout, in person and in recollection, I refer to Henry James as Henry rather than as the customary James.)Although the eleven chapters focus on the events taking place during specified months, beginning with January 1894 and ending with October 1899, the

I loved this book. I thought Tóibín did a beautiful job adapting his style to one that was evocative of Henry James, although more easily readable. The novel moves with James to London, Ireland, Italy, and Rye, and effectively integrates James' memories of the past in flashbacks that come as responses to his relationships, tensions, and interactions with others.Tóibín has been described as a writer who is keenly interested in his characters' psychology and relationships, and this interest comes

Life is a mystery and (that) only sentences are beautiful () The disadvantage of listening to an audiobook, however mellow and fittingly transatlantic the accent of the narrator, is that one cannot hold on to the sentences. They seem more fleeting when listened to, even when, as in this case, I went back many times to pay more attention to the beauty of a sentence, the significance of a word. And there was much I wanted to hold on to and savour in this gorgeous novel.It is the story of Henry

Description: The Master tells the story of Henry James, a man born into one of America's first intellectual families two decades before the Civil War. In stunningly resonant prose, Tsibmn captures the loneliness and longing, the hope and despair of a man who never married, never resolved his sexual identity, and whose forays into intimacy inevitably failed him and those he tried to love.Withdrawn from London Borough of Redbridge LibrariesFOR BAIRBRE AND MICHAEL STACKOpening: January 1895.

it's been a couple weeks since i finished _the master_, so i approach this review with both the benefit of critical distance and the burden of a poor memory for detail.ostensibly a fictional account of the life and inner mental workings of henry james, _the master_ ironically succeeds in painting nuanced portraits of james's cohorts while treating james himself as little more than a caricature-montage of social withdrawal, repressed homosexuality and inadvertant emotional carelessness. While one

The Master is the story of the key life-shaping experiences of Henry James. While we learn a lot about James' life, the book is not at all structured as a traditional biography. It begins late in James' life when he was settled in England and it has him reflect back on these experiences. In particular, three women, very close to him -- an invalid sister, a brilliant favorite cousin, and an author friend died relatively young. Another life-forming event was a summer camp experience with a large