The Magician (Tóibín novel)
2021 novel by Colm Tóibín
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The Magician, published in 2021, is a novel by Colm Tóibín. It is a fictional biography of German Nobel laureate Thomas Mann.[1][2]
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| Author | Colm Tóibín |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Biographical novel |
| Publisher | Scribner |
Publication date | 7 September 2021 |
| Publication place | New York |
| Pages | 498 |
| ISBN | 9781476785080 |
Reception
In a review for The New York Times, writer Jay Parini assessed The Magician as a "work of huge imaginative sympathy" and praised its "expansive and subtle rhythms" as satisfying and elegant.[3]
Lucy Hughes-Hallett of The Guardian recognised the work as "enormously ambitious" and felt Tóibín "exquisitely balanced" the private and public facets of Mann's life. Hughes-Hallet reserved special praise for Tóibín's "chilling account of his conversation with the financier and newspaper proprietor Eugene Meyer".[4]
