In The Master Colm Toibin captures the exquisite anguish of a man who circulated in the grand parlours and palazzos of Europe, who was astonishingly vibrant and alive in his art, and yet whose attempts at intimacy inevitably failed him and those he tried to love. It is a powerful account of the hazards of putting the life of the mind before affairs of the heart.
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Colm Toibin was born in Ireland in 1955 and lives in Dublin. One of his novels - The Blackwater Lightship - was shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize, as it his the case once again in 2004 with The Master.