The Magician's Land (Magician's Trilogy) - Tapa dura

Praise for "The Magician King"
"[A] serious, heartfelt novel [that] turns the machinery of fantasy inside out."
--"The New York Times "(Editor's Choice)
"A spellbinding stereograph, a literary adventure novel that is also about privilege, power, and the limits of being human. "The Magician King "is a triumphant sequel."
--NPR.org
"["The Magician King"] is "The Catcher in the Rye "for devotees of alternative universes. It's dazzling and devil-may-care. . . . Grossman has created a rare, strange, and scintillating novel."
--"Chicago"" Tribune"
""The Magician King "is a rare achievement, a book that simultaneously criticizes and celebrates our deep desire for fantasy."
--"The Boston Globe"
"Grossman has devised an enchanted milieu brimming with possibility, and his sly authorial voice gives it a literary life that positions "The Magician King "well above the standard fantasy fare."
--"San Francisco"" Chronicle"
"Grossman expands his magical world into a boundless enchanted universe, and his lively characters navigate it with aplomb."
--"The New Yorker"
""The Magician King," the immensely entertaining new novel by Lev Grossman, manages to be both deep and deeply enjoyable."
--"Chicago"" Sun-Times"
"Now that Harry Potter is through in books and films, grown-up fans of the boy wizard might want to give this nimble fantasy series a try."
--"New York"" Post"
"Lev Grossman's "The Magician King "is a fresh take on the fantasy-quest novel--dark, austere, featuring characters with considerable psychological complexity, a collection of idiosyncratic talking animals (a sloth who knows the path to the underworld, a dragon in the Grand Canal), and splendid set pieces in Venice, Provence, Cornwall, and Brooklyn."
--"The Daily Beast"
"In this page-turning follow-up to his bestselling 2009 novel "The Magicians," Grossman takes another dark, sarcastically sinister stab at fan

Praise for "The Magician's Land"
"Lev Grossman has conjured a rare creature: a trilogy that simply gets better and better as it goes along. "The Magician's Land" is sumptuous and surprising yet deliciously familiar, a glass of rich red wine left out for a hungry ghost. Literary perfection for those of us who grew up testing the structural integrity of the backs of wardrobes."
--Erin Morgenstern, author of "The Night Circus"
Praise for "The Magician's Land"
"Sink your mobile devices into the nearest wishing well and duct-tape your front door against gnomes, pollsters, and other distractions. "The Magician's Land" is beckoning, and demands your full attention. Lev Grossman proves again that the costs and consolations of creation--both of Fillory and of this conclusion to his trilogy--are mighty forces. Quentin Coldwater, Grossman's Orpheus and his Abraham, his Yahweh and his Puck, enchants as few other magicians can, or dare."
--Gregory Maguire, author of "Wicked "and "Egg & Spoon"

"Lev Grossman has conjured a rare creature: a trilogy that simply gets better and better as it goes along. "The Magician's Land" is sumptuous and surprising yet deliciously familiar, a glass of rich red wine left out for a hungry ghost. Literary perfection for those of us who grew up testing the structural integrity of the backs of wardrobes."
--Erin Morgenstern, author of "The Night Circus"

""The Magician's Land" is a triumphant climax to the best fantasy trilogy of the decade."
--Charles Stross

Praise for "The Magician's Land"
"An absolutely brilliant fantasy filled with memorable characters--old and new--and prodigious feats of imagination. . . . Endlessly fascinating . . . Fantasy fans will rejoice at its publication."
--"Booklist "(starred review)

"Sink your mobile devices into the nearest wishing well and duct-tape your front door against gnomes, pollsters, and other distractions. "The Magician's Land" is beckoning, and demands your full attention. Lev Grossman proves again that the costs and consolations of creation--both of Fillory and of this conclusion to his trilogy--are mighty forces. Quentin Coldwater, Grossman's Orpheus and his Abraham, his Yahweh and his Puck, enchants as few other magicians can, or dare."
--Gregory Maguire, author of "Wicked "and "Egg & Spoon"

"Lev Grossman has conjured a rare creature: a trilogy that simply gets better and better as it goes along. "The Magician's Land" is sumptuous and surprising yet deliciously familiar, a glass of rich red wine left out for a hungry ghost. Literary perfection for those of us who grew up testing the structural integrity of the backs of wardrobes."
--Erin Morgenstern, author of "The Night Circus"

""The Magician's Land" is a triumphant climax to the best fantasy trilogy of the decade."
--Charles Stross

Praise for "The Magician's Land"
"[A] deeply satisfying finale . . . [Grossman's] characters' magical battles have a bravura all their own. . . . The essence of being a magician, as Quentin learns to define it, could easily serve as a thumbnail description of Grossman's art: 'the power to enchant the world.'"
--"Kirkus Reviews" (starred review)
"An absolutely brilliant fantasy filled with memorable characters--old and new--and prodigious feats of imagination. . . . Endlessly fascinating . . . Fantasy fans will rejoice at its publication."
--"Booklist "(starred review)
"An elegantly written third act to Quentin's bildungsroman. . . . Fans of the trilogy will be pleased."
--"Publishers Weekly
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"If you haven't read the first two books in Grossman's Magicians trilogy, buy them immediately and set aside a weekend to read them straight through before you turn to "The Magician's Land." The series, which follows a group of--you guessed it--magicians through the emotional foibles of young adulthood has been called 'Harry Potter for adults.' But it's way more complex than that. Grossman hones in on the particularly brutal business of being young, and then adds layer upon layer of literary allusion, creating works that are both homages to fantasy's past and glimpses at its future.""--The New Republic"
"Sink your mobile devices into the nearest wishing well and duct-tape your front door against gnomes, pollsters, and other distractions. "The Magician's Land" is beckoning, and demands your full attention. Lev Grossman proves again that the costs and consolations of creation--both of Fillory and of this conclusion to his trilogy--are mighty forces. Quentin Coldwater, Grossman's Orpheus and his Abraham, his Yahweh and his Puck, enchants as few other magicians can, or dare."
--Gregory Maguire, author of "Wicked "and "Egg & Spoon"
"Lev Grossman has conjured a rare creature: a trilogy that simply gets better and better as it go

Praise for "The Magician's Land"
"An explosive conclusion to Quentin Coldwater's adventures." --"Entertainment Weekly" "[A] deeply satisfying finale . . . [Grossman's] characters' magical battles have a bravura all their own. . . . The essence of being a magician, as Quentin learns to define it, could easily serve as a thumbnail description of Grossman's art: 'the power to enchant the world.'"
--"Kirkus Reviews" (starred review)
"An absolutely brilliant fantasy filled with memorable characters--old and new--and prodigious feats of imagination. . . . Endlessly fascinating . . . Fantasy fans will rejoice at its publication."
--"Booklist "(starred review)
"["The Magicians"] series taken as a whole brings new life and energy to the fantasy genre. The final volume will please fans looking for action, emotion, and, ultimately, closure."
--"Library Journal"
"An elegantly written third act to Quentin's bildungsroman. . . . Fans of the trilogy will be pleased."
--"Publishers Weekly
"
"If you haven't read the first two books in Grossman's Magicians trilogy, buy them immediately and set aside a weekend to read them straight through before you turn to "The Magician's Land." The series, which follows a group of--you guessed it--magicians through the emotional foibles of young adulthood has been called 'Harry Potter for adults.' But it's way more complex than that. Grossman hones in on the particularly brutal business of being young, and then adds layer upon layer of literary allusion, creating works that are both homages to fantasy's past and glimpses at its future.""--The New Republic"
"Sink your mobile devices into the nearest wishing well and duct-tape your front door against gnomes, pollsters, and other distractions. "The Magician's Land" is beckoning, and demands your full attention. Lev Grossman proves again that the costs and consolations of creation--both of Fillory and of this conclusion to his trilogy--are mighty.

Praise for "The Magicians"
"Fresh and compelling..."The Magicians" is a great fairy tale, written for grown-ups but appealing to our most basic desires for stories to bring about some re-enchantment with the world, where monsters lurk but where a young man with a little magic may prevail."
"--Washington Post"
""The Magicians" is original...slyly funny."
"--USA Today"
"Lev Grossman's playful fantasy novel "The Magicians" pays homage to a variety of sources...with such verve and ease that you quickly forget the references and lose yourself in the story."
--O, "The Oprah Magazine"
""The Magicians" is to Harry Potter as a shot of Irish whiskey is to a glass of weak tea. Solidly rooted in the traditions of both fantasy and mainstream literary fiction, the novel tips its hat to Oz and Narnia as well to Harry, but don't mistake this for a children's book. Grossman's sensibilities are thoroughly adult, his narrative dark and dangerous and full of twists. Hogwarts was never like this."
--George R. R. Martin, bestselling author of "A Game of Thrones"
"Stirring, complex, adventurous...from the life of Quentin Coldwater, his slacker Park Slope Harry Potter, Lev Grossman delivers superb coming of age fantasy."
--Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize--winning author of "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao"
"I felt like I was poppin' peyote buttons with J. K. Rowling when I was reading Lev Grossman's new novel "The Magicians."...I couldn't put it down."
--Mickey Rapkin, "GQ"
"The novel manages a literary magic trick: it's both an enchantingly written fantasy and a moving deconstruction of enchantingly realized fantasies."
"--Los Angeles Times"
"Intriguing, coming-of-age fantasy."
"--Boston Globe" (Pick of the Week)
""The Magicians" by Lev Grossman is a very entertaining book; one of those summer page-turners that you wish went on for another six volumes. Grossman takes a good number of the be

Praise for "The Magician's Land"" "
"Richly imagined and continually surprising. . . . The strongest book in Grossman's series. It not only offers a satisfying conclusion to Quentin Coldwater's quests, earthly and otherwise, but also considers complex questions about identity and selfhood as profound as they are entertaining. . . . "The Magician's Land," more than any other book in the trilogy, wrestles with the question of humanity. . . . This is a gifted writer, and his gifts are at their apex in "The Magician's Land.""
--Edan Lepucki, "The New York Times Book Review "
"[A] wonderful trilogy. . . . If the Narnia books were like catnip for a certain kind of kid, these books are like crack for a certain kind of adult. . . . Brakebills graduates can have a hard time adjusting to life outside, though some distract themselves by lazily meddling in world affairs (e.g., the election of 2000). Readers of Mr. Grossman's mesmerizing trilogy might experience the same kind of withdrawal upon finishing "The Magician's Land." Short of wishing that a fourth book could suddenly appear by magic, there's not much we can do about it."
--Sarah Lyall, "The New York Times " "Grossman makes it clear in the deepening complexity and widening scope of each volume that he understands the pleasures and perils of stories and believing in them. . . . "The Magician's Land" triumphantly answers the essential questions at the heart of the series, about whether magic belongs to childhood alone, whether reality trumps fantasy, even whether we have the power to shape our own lives in an indifferent universe."
--Gwenda Bond, "The Los Angeles Times "
"A wholly satisfying and stirring conclusion to this weird and wonderful tale. . . . Relentlessly subversive and inventive. . . . Grossman can . . . write like a magician. . . . [He] reminds us that good writing can beguile the senses, imagination and intellect. The door at the back of the book is still there, and we can go b

The stunning conclusion to the "New York Times" bestselling Magicians trilogy
Quentin Coldwater has lost everything. He has been cast out of Fillory, the secret magical land of his childhood dreams that he once ruled. Everything he had fought so hard for, not to mention his closest friends, is sealed away in a land Quentin may never again visit. With nothing left to lose he returns to where his story began, the Brakebills Preparatory College of Magic. But he can't hide from his past, and it's not long before it comes looking for him. Meanwhile, the magical barriers that keep Fillory safe are failing, and barbarians from the north have invaded. Eliot and Janet, the rulers of Fillory, embark on a final quest to save their beloved world, only to discover a situation far more complex--and far more dire--than anyone had envisioned.
Along with Plum, a brilliant young magician with a dark secret of her own, Quentin sets out on a crooked path through a magical demimonde of gray magic and desperate characters. His new life takes him back to old haunts, like Antarctica and the Neitherlands, and old friends he thought were lost forever. He uncovers buried secrets and hidden evils and ultimately the key to a sorcerous masterwork, a spell that could create a magical utopia. But all roads lead back to Fillory, where Quentin must face his fears and put things right or die trying.
"The Magician's Land" is an intricate and fantastical thriller, and an epic of love and redemption that brings the Magicians trilogy to a magnificent conclusion, confirming it as one of the great achievements in modern fantasy. It's the story of a boy becoming a man, an apprentice becoming a master, and a broken land finally becoming whole.