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Colm Toibin

Colm Toibin

Irish writer Colm Toibin joins James Naughtie and readers to discuss his novel The Master.

Bookclub · BBC Radio 4

August 3, 200827m 19s

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Irish writer Colm Toibin joins James Naughtie and readers to discuss his Man Booker shortlisted novel The Master, a fictionalised account of five years in the life of Henry James. James is often thought of as a writer's writer and Toibin's story explores the difference and the tension between the master novelist and the private man, anxious, troubled and unsure.