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Colm Toibin is the author of ten novels, including The Blackwater Lightship; The Master, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Brooklyn, winner of the Costa Book Award; The Testament of Mary; and Nora Webster, as well as two story collections, and Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know, a look at three nineteenth-century Irish authors. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University. Three times shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Toibin lives in Dublin and New York. The Magician is his most recent work.
"A classical coming-of-age story, pure, unsensationalized, quietly
profound... There are no antagonists in this novel, no
psychodramas, no angst. There is only the sound of a young woman
slowly and deliberately stepping into herself, learning to make and
stand behind her choices, finding herself."-- "Pam Houston, O, the
Oprah Magazine"
"Reading Toibin is like watching an artist paint one small stroke
after another until suddenly the finished picture emerges to
shattering effect.... Brooklyn stands comparison with Henry James's
The Portrait of a Lady."-- "The Times Literary Supplement
(U.K.)"
"Toibin ... [is] his generation's most gifted writer of love's
complicated, contradictory power."-- "Floyd Skoot, Los Angeles
Times"
[A] triumph... One of those magically quiet novels that sneak up on
readers and capture their imaginations.-- "USA Today"
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