The master
Tóibín, Colm, 1955-2024
Book
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.
Main title:
The master / Colm Tóibín.
Author:
Tóibín, Colm, 1955-, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Picador Collection, 2024.©2004
Collation:
359 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781035029860 (pbk)9781035029860 (paperback)
Dewey class:
823.914
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
809099
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Melbourne Library | Fiction Paperback | General T | On loan - Due: 08 Jul 2026 |