Colm Toibin: The Master (Picador Classic) [2005] paperback Condition:Good that I was too'

that I was too'

* 'One of the most influential novels of the twentieth century' SARAH WATERS

from the Trojan War to Jason and the Argonauts

and being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010

'The writing is full of energy and originality' Irish Times

Colm Toibin: The Master (Picador Classic) [2005] paperback Condition:Good that I was too'In January 1895 Henry James anticipates the opening of his first play, Guy Domville, in London. The production fails, and he returns, chastened and humiliated, to his writing desk. The result is a string of masterpieces, but they are produced at a high personal cost. In The Master Colm Toibin captures the exquisite anguish of a man who circulated in the grand parlours and palazzos of Europe, who was astonishingly vibrant and alive in his art, and yet