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The Master

By: Colm Tóibín
Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
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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 Tóibín 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.

Accolades & Awards

Lambda Literary Award
2004
Los Angeles Times Book Prize
2004
Stonewall Book Award
2005
Art & Literature Authors Biographical Fiction Biographies & Memoirs Genre Fiction Lambda Literary Award Literary Fiction Los Angeles Times Book Prize Stonewall Book Award Heartfelt
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