The master

Brilliant and profoundly moving the story tells of a man born into one of America's first intellectual families two decades before the Civil War. Henry James left his country to live in Paris, Rome, Venice and London among privileged artists and writers. Here Colm Toibin captures the loneliness and longing, the hope and despair of a man who never married, never resolved his sexual identity. and whose forays into intimacy inevitably failed him and those he tried to love. Time and time again, James, proves blind to his own heart and incapable of reconciling his dreams of passion with his own fragililty.