The Master: A Novel
 

The Master: A Novel

by Colm Toibin

Like Michael Cunningham in The Hours, Colm Tóibín captures the extraordinary mind and heart of a great writer. Beautiful and profoundly moving, The Master tells the story of 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.
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muque and shylock tomes
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Fun if frustrating because in a way it represents so much that is repressed [in all of us]. Also about sublimation. Venice.

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