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The magicians : a novel / Lev Grossman.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780670020553
- ISBN: 0670020559
- Physical Description: 402 p. : map ; 25 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Viking, c2009.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Map on lining papers. |
| Summary, etc.: | Intellectually precocious high school senior Quentin Coldwater escapes the boredom of his daily life by reading and re-reading a series of beloved fantasy novels set in an enchanted land called Fillory. Like everybody else, he assumes that magic isn't real--until he finds himself unexpectedly admitted to a very secret, very exclusive college of magic in upstate New York. |
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| Subject: | College students > Fiction. College graduates > Fiction. Magic > Fiction. New York (State) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Psychological fiction. Coming-of-age fiction. Fantasy fiction. Coming-of-age fiction. Bildungsromans. Coming-of-age fiction. |
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Available copies
- 6 of 6 copies available at GRPL.
Holds
0 current holds with 6 total copies.
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| Madison Square | Fiction Grossman (Text) | 31307022833158 | Fiction | Available | - |
| Main | Fiction Grossman (Text) | 31307023228507 | Fiction | Available | - |
| Main | Fiction Grossman (Text) | 31307023923453 | Fiction | Available | - |
| Seymour | Fiction Grossman (Text) | 31307023923446 | Fiction | Available | - |
| Van Belkum | Fiction Grossman (Text) | 31307025098312 | Fiction | Available | - |
| Westside | Fiction Grossman (Text) | 31307025938020 | Fiction | Available | - |
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Author Notes
The Magicians : A Novel
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. (Bowker Author Biography)
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