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Title	:	The Master
Author	:	Colm Tóibín
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary 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

The Master Paperback | Pages: 339 pages

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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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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)

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I first read this book in 2004. I had chosen to read it because it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, not because it was about Henry James. Thirteen years on, I rarely read books in the Booker shortlist but I'm definitely interested in Henry James so it was with a certain curiosity that I picked this book out of a box I was unpacking and opened up its yellow-tinged pages. In the years since my first reading, I'd always maintained in any discussion about Toibin's books that The Master was the

usually i get frustrated and bogged down when the pace of a book is as slow as this one, and when the plot isn't really the point. but i loved loved loved this book, and loved its carefully crafted, meditative prose style. i found myself reading much more slowly than i usually do and thinking more about what was being said, so for me it was more of an interactive experience than reading usually is, and i loved that. the sentence structure was more challenging than the books i guess i've been

I have loved all that I have read from Colm Toibin. Add another one. I'm glad I read A Portrait of a Lady and Turn of the Screw before I read this so I had more feel for Henry James's fiction. The "master" of the title is Henry. The book spends a lot of time in Italy, most of the time in England, and a lot of flashback to America. I loved all of the settings, but my favorite was in Rye at Lamb House. I've been there! And at the time I was more into the fact that EF Benson lived there and set his

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

Nuanced is one of those great homological words. (Polysyllabic is the usual example a word that describes itself.) When multiple blurbs for a book call it nuanced, you can bet itll feature more in the way of inner life and less in the way of plot. Of course, this can be good or bad depending on how skilled the writer is, how interesting the drill-downs are, and the extent to which the M.O. might otherwise be hackneyed or boilerplate. Its like jazz standards. Im not talking about the ivory

It's pretty audacious to make Henry James the hero of your book. Tóibín starts by showing us this deeply closeted, repressed guy: this is the Henry James we know. But then: he goes deeper, writing him as not just closeted but a coward, a selfish guy, and you're like whoa, hey. And then he goes even deeper and shows the terrible damage he's inflicted on everyone around him through his cowardice and selfishness, and you realize Tóibín hasn't made James the hero of his book; he's made him the

This is my first Colm Toibin, and it definitely wont be the last - he writes so beautifully, it is a joy to read, and this alone would earn top marks for me. But I did find the subject matter disorienting. I did not do any research before starting this novel, and so I can only presume that a lot of what the Henry James does and writes is based on Toibins own research, perusal of correspondence, and so on. But what about what Henry James thinks? How he feels? Hammonds hand on his shoulder, the