Annotation
"The Master tells the story of Henry James, a man born into one of America's first intellectual families two decades before the Civil War. James left his country to live in Paris, Rome, Venice, and London among privileged artists and writers." "Toibin captures the loneliness and longing, the hope and despair of a man who never married, never resolved his sexual identity, and whose forays into intimacy inevitably failed him and those he tried to love. The emotional intensity of Toibin'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."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Awards
2004 New York Times Notable Books of the Year
2005 Stonewall Book Awards
2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes
2005 Lambda Literary Awards
2006 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
2004 New York Times Editors' Choice
Characters
| Name | James, Henry |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Traits | American |
| Unmarried | |
| Expatriate | |
| Genre | Biographical Fiction Historical Psychological |
| Topics | Writers Exile Expatriates Americans in foreign countries Artistic struggles Sexual identity |
| Setting | England |