false 6101718 7 <B>A thrilling and original coming-of-age novel about a young man practicing magic in the real world</B><BR><BR>Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. A senior in high school, he’s still secretly preoccupied with a series of fantasy novels he read as a child, set in a magical land called Fillory. Imagine his surprise when he finds himself unexpectedly admitted to a very secret, very exclusive college of magic in upstate New York, where he receives a thorough and rigorous education in the craft of modern sorcery.<BR><BR> He also discovers all the other things people learn in college: friendship, love, sex, booze, and boredom. Something is missing, though. Magic doesn’t bring Quentin the happiness and adventure he dreamed it would. After graduation he and his friends make a stunning discovery: Fillory is real. But the land of Quentin’s fantasies turns out to be much darker and more dangerous than he could have imagined. His childhood dream becomes a nightmare with a shocking truth at its heart.<BR><BR> At once psychologically piercing and magnificently absorbing, <I>The Magicians</I> boldly moves into uncharted literary territory, imagining magic as practiced by real people, with their capricious desires and volatile emotions. Lev Grossman creates an utterly original world in which good and evil aren’t black and white, love and sex aren’t simple or innocent, and power comes at a terrible price. 6278977 book 2009 The Magicians: A Novel total:1315|5:231|4:459|3:393|2:178|1:54| 1315 4580 3897 596 4 24 false false Sat Apr 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 18:13:30 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 17:50:14 -0700 2009 Grossman's last novel: Harry Potter leaves me cold; I'm seemingly the only person in the world who liked (the underrated) The Little Friend a whole lot more than (the overrated) The Secret History;...more...]]> 2 14 false false Fri Aug 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 01:26:11 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 13:41:49 -0700 2009
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The protagonist, Quentin, is a gloomy, introverted high schooler who is about to start the college application process, although he isn't...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 14:30:17 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 14:43:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 true false Fri Oct 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 14:28:25 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 14:40:26 -0700 2009 It's been described as "Harry Potter for adults," and I find that a very apt descrip...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Oct 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 08:25:18 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 08:45:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Oct 19 06:42:30 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 06:42:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Oct 15 08:44:36 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 08:55:15 -0700 2009
Quentin calls to mind moody, unhappy young adults in the vein of Holden ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Oct 12 20:50:11 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 20:51:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Sat Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 20:44:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 20:50:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 14:10:55 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 14:29:33 -0700 2009
This sense of magical claustrophobia suffuses...more...]]>