Wednesday, April 19, 2017

The Master by Colm Toibin



The author selected writer Henry James to base this novel on. It is the life of Henry James as imagined by Colm Toibin.  What is interesting to me is that throughout the novel, the character Henry James chose people he knew and based characters on them in his stories.  Did the real Henry James do that in real life?

The character went through reservations about his life as a writer.  When he tried his hand at play-writing, he wasn’t successful so he went back to writing. 

It took me a few chapters to get hooked into the story and I enjoyed it.  I don’t know much about Henry James, but after reading this “make-believe” tale, I will be reading some of his novels.

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