The magicians a novel

The New York Times bestselling novel about a young man practicing magic in the real world, soon to be an original series on Syfy "The Magicians is to Harry Potter as a shot of Irish whiskey is to a glass of weak tea. . . . Hogwarts was never like this." -- George R.R. Martin "Sad, hil...

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Main Author: Grossman, Lev.
Format: Downloads eBook Books eBook
Language: English
Published: 2009.
Series: The Magicians.
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Summary: The New York Times bestselling novel about a young man practicing magic in the real world, soon to be an original series on Syfy "The Magicians is to Harry Potter as a shot of Irish whiskey is to a glass of weak tea. . . . Hogwarts was never like this." -- George R.R. Martin "Sad, hilarious, beautiful, and essential to anyone who cares about modern fantasy." -- Joe Hill "A very knowing and wonderful take on the wizard school genre." -- John Green "The Magicians may just be the most subversive, gripping and enchanting fantasy novel I've read this century." -- Cory Doctorow "This gripping novel draws on the conventions of contemporary and classic fantasy novels in order to upend them . . . an unexpectedly moving coming-of-age story." -- The New Yorker "The best urban fantasy in years." -- A.V. ClubQuentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. A high school math genius, he's secretly fascinated with a series of children's fantasy novels set in a magical land called Fillory, and real life is disappointing by comparison. When Quentin is unexpectedly admitted to an elite, secret college of magic, it looks like his wildest dreams have come true. But his newfound powers lead him down a rabbit hole of hedonism and disillusionment, and ultimately to the dark secret behind the story of Fillory. The land of his childhood fantasies turns out to be much darker and more dangerous than he ever could have imagined. . . .The prequel to the New York Times bestselling book The Magician King and the #1 bestseller The Magician's Land, The Magicians is one of the most daring and inventive works of literary fantasy in years. No one who has escaped into the worlds of Narnia and Harry Potter should miss this breathtaking return to the landscape of the imagination. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Audience: Text Difficulty 5
ISBN: 9781101082287
Author Notes: Lev Grossman was born on June 26, 1969. He received a degree in literature from Harvard University in 1991. He spent three years in the Ph.D. program in comparative literature at Yale University, but left before completing his dissertation. In 2002, he became a book reviewer and one of the lead technology writers for Time magazine. He has written for Salon, The Village Voice, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, Entertainment Weekly, The Believer, Lingua Franca, and the New York Times. His first novel, Warp, was published in 1997. His other novels include Codex, The Magicians, which won a 2010 Alex Award, The Magician King and The Magician's Land.

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