Colm Toibin Collection 3 Books Set Guest at the Feast, Magician, Long Island

Name: Colm Toibin Collection 3 Books Set Guest at the Feast, Magician, Long Island
Brand: Colm Tóibín

Colm Tóibín

Description. Condition: Brand New. Format : Paperback. A Guest at the Feast:. A Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it.From the melancholy and amusement within the work of the writer John McGahern to an extraordinary essay on his own cancer diagnosis, Tóibín delineates the bleakness and strangeness of life and also its richness and its complexity. As he reveals the shades of light and dark in a Venice without tourists and the streets of Buenos Aires riddled with disappearances, we find ourselves considering law and religion in Ireland as well as the intricacies of Marilynne Robinson's fiction.. The Magician:. The Magician tells the story of Thomas Mann, whose life was filled with great acclaim and contradiction. He would find himself on the wrong side of history in the First World War, cheerleading the German army, but have a clear vision of the future in the second,...