by Colm Tóibín (Author), Colm Tóibín (Author)
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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
Edition: Reprints
Publisher: Picador
Published: 21 Jan 2005
ISBN 10: 0330485660
ISBN 13: 9780330485661
Prizes: Winner of IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2006. Shortlisted for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2004.