num_pages: 13
description: Named by AudioFile magazine as one of the Best Audiobooks of 2005, this unforgettable audio performance represents the best of what the medium can do. Colm Toibin tells the story of Henry James, the famous novelist born into one of America's intellectual first families two decades before the Civil War, and who left his country to live in Paris, Rome, Venice, and London among privileged artists and writers. In stunningly resonant prose, Toibin captures the loneliness and longing, the hope and despair of a man who never married, who never resolved his sexual identity, and whose forays into intimacy inevitably failed him and those he tried to love. The emotional intensity of Toibin's portrait of James is riveting. Time and again, James, a master of psychological subtlety in his fiction, proves blind to his own heart.
language: English
title: The Master: A Novel
titlecomplete: The Master: A Novel
characters: Henry James
genres: Ireland, Historical Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, British Literature, Irish Literature, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 10443
places: Rye, East Sussex, England, London, England
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Stonewall Book Award
category: Literature, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Gay Fiction, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger
category: Roman, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Dublin Literary Award, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: The Ferro-Grumley Awards finalist
category: Gay Fiction
publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks