The Magician
by Tóibín , Colm
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 024197058X
- ISBN 13
- 9780241970584
- Seller
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Bromsgrove, West Midlands, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Penguin, 2022 9780241970584. Softback. Fine. Excellent condition. No creasing to spine. No annotations or inscriptions etc. 438 pages. Winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize. From 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 settle again in 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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- Bookseller
- David Edward Hellawell (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2533
- Title
- The Magician
- Author
- Tóibín , Colm
- Book Condition
- Used
- ISBN 10
- 024197058X
- ISBN 13
- 9780241970584
- Publisher
- London: Penguin, 2022 9780241970584
- Keywords
- Thomas Mann Family Writings Novels WWI WWII Exile USA Germany Switzerland Nazis Nobel Prize QSE
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David Edward Hellawell
I will refund the cost if the book is returned within 7 days with details of where the description was faulty.
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David Edward Hellawell
Biblio member since 2007
Bromsgrove, West Midlands
About David Edward Hellawell
Professor Emeritus now selling off the stock of a lifetime.
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