{"product_id":"the-master-9780743250412","title":"The Master","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Colm T?ib?n's beautiful, subtle illumination of Henry James's inner life\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) captures the loneliness and hope of a master of psychological subtlety whose forays into intimacy inevitably fail those he tried to love.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBeautiful and profoundly moving, \u003ci\u003eThe Master\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe emotional intensity of T?ib?n's portrait of James is riveting. Time and again, James, a master of psychological subtlety in his fiction, proves blind to his own heart and incapable of reconciling his dreams of passion with his own fragility. With stunningly resonant prose, \"The Master is unquestionably the work of a first-rate novelist: artful, moving, and very beautiful\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eColm Tóibín is the author of eleven novels, including \u003ci\u003eLong Island\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Magician\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize; \u003ci\u003eThe Master\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Costa Book Award; \u003ci\u003eThe Testament of Mary\u003c\/i\u003e; and\u003ci\u003e Nora Webster\u003c\/i\u003e; as well as two story collections and several books of criticism. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and has been named as the Laureate for Irish Fiction for 2022-2024 by the Arts Council of Ireland. Three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Tóibín lives in Dublin and New York.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50610554765586,"sku":"9780743250412","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d79a37d1-8bf7-4124-bf74-83d5dae5e416.jpg?v=1732344988","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-master-9780743250412","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}