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- Los Angeles Times
Colm Tóibín's latest tale is bound together by the tension between secrecy and revelation
Colm Tóibín is hardly known for “hooks,” but he certainly has one here. The author, who’s specialized in the novelized lives of repressed literary masters with elaborate prose styles — Henry ...
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- The Oprah Magazine via Yahoo
Oprah Announces Her 105th Book Club Pick
Long Island is, in some ways, a sequel to Colm Tóibín’s award-winning 2009 novel Brooklyn, which was adapted into an acclaimed 2015 feature film by the same name, starring Saoirse Ronan (of ...
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Sep 17, 2021 · The Magician by Colm Tóibín review – inside the mind of Thomas Mann. This compelling fictionalised biography explores the life and times of the exiled German Nobel winner, exquisitely...
Sep 7, 2021 · 15,543 ratings2,036 reviews. Colm Tóibín’s new novel opens in a provincial German city at the turn of the twentieth century, where the boy, Thomas Mann, grows up with a conservative father, bound by propriety, and a Brazilian mother, alluring and unpredictable.
Aug 31, 2021 · Colm Toibin, whose new novel, “The Magician,” is about the life of Thomas Mann. Reynaldo Revera. Toibin is a writer of pinging dialogue, a novelistic Tom Stoppard, and he gives Katia many...
A dazzling, epic family saga set across a half-century spanning World War I, the rise of Hitler, World War II, and the Cold War. Colm Tóibín’s magnificent new novel opens in a provincial German city at the turn of the twentieth century, where the boy, Thomas Mann, grows up with a conservative father, bound by propriety, and a Brazilian ...
Sep 7, 2021 · Hardcover – September 7, 2021. by Colm Toibin (Author) 4.4 6,923 ratings. Best Literature & Fiction. See all formats and editions. A New York Times Notable Book, Critic’s Top Pick, and Top Ten Book of Historical Fiction. Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, NPR, Vogue, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg Businessweek. .
Sep 7, 2021 · Sept. 7, 2021. THE MAGICIAN. By Colm Toibin. Exiled in Switzerland in the early 1930s, Thomas Mann grew frantic about the private diaries he had left behind in Germany. As Colm Toibin...
In this “exquisitely sensitive” ( The Wall Street Journal) novel, Tóibín has crafted “a complex but empathetic portrayal of a writer in a lifelong battle against his innermost desires, his...
