num_pages: 559
description: A New York Times Bestseller Brilliant and profoundly moving, The Master tells the story of Henry James, a man born into one of America's first intellectual families two decades before the Civil War. In stunningly resonant prose, Toibin captures the loneliness and longing, the hope and despair of a man who never married, never resolved his sexual identity, and whose forays into intimacy inevitably failed him and those he tried to love.
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: Wheeler Publishing