The Master

b>With an introduction by award-winning novelist Tessa Hadley/b> 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 Toibín 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.

Product details

• Authors: Colm Toibin, Colm Tóibín
• Assisted by: Tessa Hadley (Introduction)
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9781509870530
• ISBN: 978-1-5098-7053-0
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 196 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Picador Classic; Picador Classic; Picador Classics; Picador Collection
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Europe, Biography: literary, Historical fiction, c 1800 to c 1900, Literary, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary Figures