Isbn: 9780241004623 - the Magician: Colm Toibin (21 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZEFrom one of our greatest living writers comes a sweeping novel of unrequited love and exile, war and family.The Magician tells the story of Thomas Mann, whose life was filled with great acclaim and contradiction. He would find himself on the wrong side of history in the First World War, cheerleading the German army, but have a clear vision of the future in the second, anticipating the horrors of Nazism.He would have six children and keep his homosexuality hidden; he was a man forever connected to his family and yet bore witness to the ravages of suicide. He would write some of the greatest works of European literature, and win the Nobel Prize, but would never return to the country that inspired his creativity.Through one life, Colm Tóibín tells the breathtaking story of the twentieth century.___________________________________'As with everything Colm Tóibín sets his masterful hand to, The Magician is a great imaginative achievement -- immensely readable, erudite, worldly and knowing, and fully realized' - Richard Ford'No living novelist dramatizes artistic creation as profoundly, as luminously, as Colm Tóibín . . . reading him is among the deepest pleasures our literature can offer' - Garth Greenwell'This is not just a whole life in a novel, it's a whole world' - Katharina Volckmer.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZEFrom one of our greatest living writers comes a sweeping novel of unrequited love and exile, war and family.The Magician tells the story of Thomas Mann, whose life was filled with great acclaim and contradiction. He would find himself on the wrong side of history in the First World War, cheerleading the German army, but have a clear vision of the future in the second, anticipating the horrors of Nazism.He would have six children and keep his homosexuality hidden; he was a man forever connected to his family and yet bore witness to the ravages of suicide. He would write some of the greatest works of European literature, and win the Nobel Prize, but would never return to the country that inspired his creativity.Through one life, Colm Tóibín tells the breathtaking story of the twentieth century.___________________________________'As with everything Colm Tóibín sets his masterful hand to, The Magician is a great imaginative achievement -- immensely readable, erudite, worldly and knowing, and fully realized' - Richard Ford'No living novelist dramatizes artistic creation as profoundly, as luminously, as Colm Tóibín . . . reading him is among the deepest pleasures our literature can offer' - Garth Greenwell'This is not just a whole life in a novel, it's a whole world' - Katharina Volckmer.…

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Fourth Impression. Very good paperback copy; edges slightly dulled and edge-nicked. Bright and clean internally. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; 437 pages ; 24 cm. Subjects; Mann, Thomas 1875-1955 ; Fiction. FICTION / Historical / World War I. FICTION / Historical / World War II. FICTION / Biographical. FICTION / Family Life / General. FICTION / LGBTQ+ / General. First World War Fiction. Second World War Fiction. 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000. Fiction. Historical Fiction. Novelists, German ; Fiction. Gay men ; Fiction. Bohemianism ; Fiction. World War, 1914-1918 ; Fiction. Germany History 1871- ; Fiction. Los Angeles (Calif.) ; Fiction. United States History 1945- ; Fiction. 1 Kg.…

Fourth Impression. Very good paperback copy; edges slightly dulled and edge-nicked. Bright and clean internally. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; 437 pages ; 24 cm. Subjects; Mann, Thomas 1875-1955 ; Fiction. FICTION / Historical / World War I. FICTION / Historical / World War II. FICTION / Biographical. FICTION / Family Life / General. FICTION / LGBTQ+ / General. First World War Fiction. Second World War Fiction. 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000. Fiction. Historical Fiction. Novelists, German ; Fiction. Gay men ; Fiction. Bohemianism ; Fiction. World War, 1914-1918 ; Fiction. Germany History 1871- ; Fiction. Los Angeles (Calif.) ; Fiction. United States History 1945- ; Fiction. 1 Kg.…

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Paperback. Condition: As New. 440 pages. light shelf wearColm Tóibín's magnificent new novel opens in a provincial German city at the t urn of the twentieth century, where the boy, Thomas Mann, grows up with a conser vative father, bound by propriety, and a Brazilian mother, alluring and unpredic table. Young Mann hides his artistic aspirations from his father and his homosex ual desires from everyone. He is infatuated with one of the richest, most cultur ed Jewish families in Munich, and marries the daughter Katia. They have six chil dren. On a holiday in Italy, he longs for a boy he sees on a beach and writes th e story Death in Venice. He is the most successful novelist of his time, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, a public man whose private life remains secret . He is expected to lead the condemnation of Hitler, whom he underestimates. His oldest daughter and son, leaders of Bohemianism and of the anti-Nazi movement, share lovers. He flees Germany for Switzerland, France and, ultimately, America, living first in Princeton and then in Los Angeles.…