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Viking Adult
August 2009
On Sale: August 11, 2009
416 pages
ISBN: 0670020559
EAN: 9780670020553
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A thrilling and original coming of- age novel about a
young man practicing magic in the real
world. Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but
miserable. A senior in high school, he’s still secretly
preoccupied with a series of fantasy novels he read as a
child, set in a magical land called Fillory. Imagine his
surprise when he finds himself unexpectedly admitted to a
very secret, very exclusive college of magic in upstate New
York, where he receives a thorough and rigorous education in
the craft of modern sorcery. He also discovers all
the other things people learn in college: friendship, love,
sex, booze, and boredom. Something is missing, though. Magic
doesn’t bring Quentin the happiness and adventure he dreamed
it would. After graduation he and his friends make a
stunning discovery: Fillory is real. But the land of
Quentin’s fantasies turns out to be much darker and more
dangerous than he could have imagined. His childhood dream
becomes a nightmare with a shocking truth at its
heart. At once psychologically piercing and
magnificently absorbing, The Magicians boldly moves
into uncharted literary territory, imagining magic as
practiced by real people, with their capricious desires and
volatile emotions. Lev Grossman creates an utterly original
world in which good and evil aren’t black and white, love
and sex aren’t simple or innocent, and power comes at a
terrible price.
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