false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170210964m/43691.jpg 43691 25 Like Michael Cunningham in <I>The Hours,</I> Colm Tóibín captures the extraordinary mind and heart of a great writer. Beautiful and profoundly moving, <I>The Master</I> tells the story of a man born into one of America's first intellectual families who leaves his country in the late nineteenth century to live in Paris, Rome, Venice, and London among privileged artists and writers.<P>In stunningly resonant prose, Tóibín captures the loneliness and the hope of a master of psychological subtlety whose forays into intimacy inevitably failed those he tried to love. The emotional intensity of this portrait is riveting.<P> 335 book 2004 The Master total:760|5:198|4:295|3:194|2:68|1:23| 760 2841 1386 168 4 2 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 17 12:37:59 -0800 2008 Fri Mar 20 02:19:34 -0700 2009
Colm Toibin, author of _The Master_, imitates Henry James' style as he tells this fictionalized biography of part of Henry James' life.

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ostensibly a fictional account of the life and inner mental workings of henry james, _the master_ ironically succeeds in...more...]]> 4 3 false false Sat Jun 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 03 19:07:57 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 19 04:23:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Dec 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 27 13:44:40 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 31 17:35:48 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false true Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Apr 11 13:20:52 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 11 13:42:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 1 false false Mon Sep 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 21:29:20 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 30 07:32:38 -0800 2009 Portrait of a lady, Wings of the Dove, and three other shorter works by James. Toibin's writing was oppressively static when I first tried it, but now that I've rendered myself impervious to unceasing fogs, unverifiable rumors, and knotted syntax...more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Apr 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 09:58:03 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 18:18:42 -0700 2009
I was on a mission to read this book - I had downloaded it a few years ago after reading some good reviews. First, I decided I would culture myself by reading some Henry James, so I read The Portrait of a Lady. The reviews made it s...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jan 30 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 13:59:40 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 09:10:16 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 07:17:53 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 12:40:42 -0700 2009 . . . it was quiet and contemplative;
. . . it was informative in an unassuming way;
. . . it focused on character, not plot;
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Although it was unclear to me at first the extent to which Colm Tóibín's beautiful book The Master is historical fiction and to what extent it is biography. Whatever it is, I abso...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 13 18:56:08 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 27 18:50:55 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Aug 14 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Feb 05 11:09:23 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 06 07:27:48 -0800 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=43691