The riveting conclusion to Lev Grossman's bestselling Magicians trilogy.
Lev Grossman is a novelist and Time magazine's book critic. A graduate of Harvard and Yale, he has written articles for the New York Times, Salon, Entertainment Weekly, Time Out New York and the Village Voice. In 2005 his debut novel Codex was published to great critical acclaim. He is also the author of The Magicians, The Magician King and The Magician's Land. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
The final part of the outstanding Magicians trilogy ... Lev
Grossman manipulates fantasy genres with skill ... The Magician's
Land glitters with wit, but the warp and weft of the story is shot
through with emotional rawness and a sense of peril.
*Daily Mail*
Richly imagined and continually surprising … The strongest book in
Grossman’s series. It not only offers a satisfying conclusion to
Quentin Coldwater’s quests, earthly and otherwise, but also
considers complex questions about identity and selfhood as profound
as they are entertaining … This is a gifted writer, and his gifts
are at their apex in The Magician’s Land.
*New York Times Book Review*
[A] wonderful trilogy ... If the Narnia books were like catnip for
a certain kind of kid, these books are like crack for a certain
kind of adult ... Brakebills graduates can have a hard time
adjusting to life outside ... Readers of Mr. Grossman’s mesmerizing
trilogy might experience the same kind of withdrawal upon finishing
The Magician’s Land. Short of wishing that a fourth book could
suddenly appear by magic, there’s not much we can do about it.
*New York Times*
A wholly satisfying and stirring conclusion to this weird and
wonderful tale ... Relentlessly subversive and inventive ...
[Grossman] reminds us that good writing can beguile the senses,
imagination and intellect. The door at the back of the book is
still there, and we can go back to those magical lands, older and
wiser, eager for the re-enchantment.
*Washington Post*
The Magician’s Land ... does all the things you want in a third
book: winding up everyone's stories, tying up the loose ends - and
giving you a bit more than you bargained for ... Starting very
early in Magician's Land, Grossman kicks off a series of escalating
magical battles, each more fantastic, taut, and brutal than the
last ... At the same time, Grossman never loses sight of the idea
of magic as unknowable and unsystematized, a thread of Borgesian
Big Weird that culminates in a beautiful tribute to Borges himself.
It's this welding together of adventure-fiction plotstuff and
introspective, moody characterization that makes this book, and the
trilogy it concludes, so worthy of your reading time, and your
re-reading time.
*Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing*
Grossman makes it clear in the deepening complexity and widening
scope of each volume that he understands the pleasures and perils
of stories and believing in them ... The Magician's Land
triumphantly answers the essential questions at the heart of the
series, about whether magic belongs to childhood alone, whether
reality trumps fantasy, even whether we have the power to shape our
own lives in an indifferent universe.
*Los Angeles Times*
The strength of the trilogy lies ... in the characters, whose inner
lives and frailties Grossman renders with care and empathy ...
Quentin[’s] ... magical journey is deeply human.
*New Yorker*
The world of Grossman's ‘Magicians’ series is arrestingly original,
joyful and messy. It's so vividly rendered that it's almost
disappointing to remember that it doesn't, after all, exist. The
overall effect is — well, there's really only one word for it: It's
magical.
*Chicago Tribune*
When read straight through, the Magicians trilogy reveals its
lovely shape. The world of the books wraps around itself, exposing
most everything necessary by its conclusion, but occluding
operations that we'll never need to see. There's still a series of
mysteries and untold tales left unknown deep inside the books.
*Slate Book Review*
The last (and IOHO, best) book in the hit Magicians trilogy. Savor
every word.
*Cosmopolitan*
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