The magician : a novel

Tóibín, Colm 1955- (author.).

Record details

ISBN: 1638080615
ISBN: 9781638080619
ISBN: 1638080615 : LIB
ISBN: 9781638080619 : LIB
ISBN: 1638080615
ISBN: 9781638080619
Physical Description: 695 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
large print
Edition: Center Point Large Print edition.
Publisher: Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2021.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Regular print version previously published by: Scribner.

Summary, etc.:

"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. Young Mann hides his artistic aspirations from his father and his homosexual desires from everyone. He is infatuated with one of the richest, most cultured Jewish families in Munich, and marries the daughter Katia. They have six children. On a holiday in Italy, he longs for a boy he sees on a beach and writes the story Death in Venice. He is the most successful novelist of his time, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, a public man whose private life remains secret. He is expected to lead the condemnation of Hitler, whom he underestimates. His oldest daughter and son, leaders of Bohemianism and of the anti-Nazi movement, share lovers. He flees Germany for Switzerland, France and, ultimately, America, living first in Princeton and then in Los Angeles. In a stunning marriage of research and imagination, T̤ibin explores the heart and mind of a writer whose gift is unparalleled and whose life is driven by a need to belong and the anguish of illicit desire."--