Title: Masterful Master
Product review: BRILLIANT. Truly brilliant. For anyone who has ever yearned to write, or for anyone who does write, or for anyone who creates art in any medium, the joy and the struggles are rendered with such acute precision--and then there is the gilded life of Henry James, the second son of one of the most illustrious families in New England, connected to everyone who was anyone, back in the days when one's birth meant everything about one's future. Colm Toibin follows Henry James's psychological state with the same intelligence and warmth that Henry James gave to his characters Isabel Archer and Lambert Strether and so many others--while enabling the reader to understand the derivation of those fictional characters and their roles in James's life. In the words of the Master himself, who wrote, "Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language," Toibin's loving ode to James is as beautiful as that summer afternoon.
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