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The portrait of a writer David Robson enjoys this novelistic homage to Henry James, even if it lacks James's artistry
From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20040321
Author:David Robson
The Master
by Colm Toibin
Picador, pounds 15.99, 368 pp
pounds 13.99 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222
COLM TOIBIN 's novel of homage to Henry James opens in January 1895. The great man is wracked with anxiety. His first play, Guy Domville, is about to open in London and he is apprehensive - rightly - about its prospects. As his own play flops, the fact that The Ideal Husband - "feeble and vulgar", thinks James - is earning extravagant plaudits for Oscar Wilde - "loud and large and Irish" - only deepens his gloom.
It is an intriguing starting-point and the reason for it soon becomes clear. ...
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