Los Magos - Hardcover

Grossman, Lev

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8466639721 ISBN 13: 9788466639729

Publisher: EDB FICCION, 2009

Synopsis

Quentin Coldwater es un chico brillante pero desdichado que vive obsesionado con las novelas de fantasia que leyo en su infancia y que transcurrian en un pais magico llamado Fillory. Cual no sera su sorpresa cuando, inesperadamente, es admitido en una muy secreta y exclusiva Universidad de magia en Nueva York, donde recibira una rigurosa educacion sobre los arcanos de la moderna hechiceria y descubrira la amistad, el amor, el sexo, la bebida... y el aburrimiento. Porque a pesar de los increibles descubrimientos que ha hecho a lo largo de estos anos de universidad, siente que le falta algo. La magia no ha conseguido que Quentin encuentre la felicidad y las aventuras con que habia sonado. Pero tras graduarse, el y sus amigos haran un descubrimiento asombroso: Fillory es real, aunque no exactamente como imaginaron en sus suenos de infancia Psicologicamente penetrante y extraordinariamente absorbente, Los magos transita por territorios inexplorados, imaginando la magia como una actividad practicada por personas de carne y hueso, con sus deseos, sus caprichos y sus volubles emociones. Lev Grossman ha creado un mundo sumamente original en el que el bien y el mal nunca son absolutos, el sexo y el amor no son simples ni inocentes y la ambicion por el poder tiene un precio terrible. / Quentin Coldwater's life is changed forever by an apparently chance encounter: when he turns up for his entrance interview to Princeton he finds his interviewer dead - but a strange envelope bearing Quentin's name leads him down a very different path to any he'd ever imagined. The envelope, and the mysterious manuscript it contains, leads to a secret world of obsession and privilege, a world of freedom and power and, for a while, it's a world that seems to answer all Quentin's desires. But the idyll cannot last - and when it's finally shattered, Quentin is drawn into something darker and far more dangerous than anything he could ever have expected...

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From the Back Cover

Quentin Coldwater's life is changed forever by an apparently chance encounter: when he turns up for his entrance interview to Princeton he finds his interviewer dead - but a strange envelope bearing Quentin's name leads him down a very different path to any he'd ever imagined. The envelope, and the mysterious manuscript it contains, leads to a secret world of obsession and privilege, a world of freedom and power and, for a while, it's a world that seems to answer all Quentin's desires. But the idyll cannot last - and when it's finally shattered, Quentin is drawn into something darker and far more dangerous than anything he could ever have expected...

About the Author

Lev Grossman was born in1969, the son of two English professors, and grew up in a suburb of Boston. He graduated from Harvard with a degree in literature and went on to the Ph.D. program in comparative literature at Yale, although he left after three years without finishing a dissertation. After Yale Grossman worked for a string of dot-coms while writing freelance articles about books, technology and culture in general for numerous magazines, newspapers and websites, until he was hired by Time in 2002 and became the magazine's book critic as well as one of its lead technology writers. He is also the author of the international bestseller CODEX.

About this edition

• Publisher: EDB FICCION
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 8466639721
• ISBN 13: 9788466639729
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 496