num_pages: 339
description: “Colm Tóibín’s beautiful, subtle illumination of Henry James’s inner life” (The New York Times) captures the loneliness and hope of a master of psychological subtlety whose forays into intimacy inevitably fail those he tried to love.Beautiful and profoundly moving, The Master tells the story of Henry James, 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. With stunningly resonant prose, “The Master is unquestionably the work of a first-rate novelist: artful, moving, and very beautiful” (The New York Times Book Review). The emotional intensity of this portrait is riveting.
language: English
title: The Master
titlecomplete: The Master
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: Scribner