| International Standard Book Number |
9781476785080 hardcover
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| International Standard Book Number |
1476785082 hardcover
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781476785097 paperback
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| International Standard Book Number |
1476785090 paperback
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| Personal Name |
Toibin, Colm, 1955- author.
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| Title Statement |
The magician : a novel / Colm Toibin.
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| Edition Statement |
First Scribner hardcover edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2021.
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| Physical Description |
500 pages ; 24 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"The Magician opens at the turn of the twentieth century in a provincial German city where the young boy, Thomas Mann, grows up with a conservative, conventional father and a Brazilian mother, exotic and unpredictable, who will never fit in. He hides both his artistic aspirations and his homosexual desires from this father, and his sexuality from everyone. He longs for the charismatic, beautiful, rich, cultured young Jewish man, but marries his twin sister. He longs for a boy he sees on a beach in Venice and writes a novel about him. He has six children. He is the most successful novelist of his time. He wins the Nobel Prize and is expected to lead the condemnation of Hitler. His oldest daughter and son share lovers. They are leaders of Bohemianism and of the anti-Nazi movement. This stunning combination of German propriety and Bohemian revolution goes hand in hand for decades. We see the rise of Hitler, the forced exile of a swath of German writers and artists, Mann's narrow escape to America, his sojourn at Princeton, along with fellow exile Einstein, and his final move to LA in the late 40s where he presided over an astonishing community of writers, artists and musicians, including Brecht and Shoenberg, even as his children court tragedy. To call this a portrait of an artist is both reductive and true-it is a novel about a character and a family, fiercely engaged by the world, profoundly flawed, and as flamboyant as it's possible to be"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955 Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Gay men Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Novelists, German Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Bohemianism Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Los Angeles (Calif.) Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
United States History 1945- Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Germany History 1871- Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Biographical fiction.
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