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An edition of The Magician King (2011)

The magician king

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Return to Fillory in the riveting sequel to the New York Times bestseller and literary phenomenon of 2009 The Magicians.

Quentin Coldwater should be blissfully happy. He escaped a miserable Brooklyn childhood for Brakebills, a secret and exclusive college for magic in upstate New York. When he graduated he discovered that Fillory, the magical utopia described in a series of children's fantasy novels he never quite outgrew, was real.

Fillory was a far more dangerous place than Quentin could have imagine, and he faced unspeakable tragedies there. But now Quentin and his friends have become the kings and queens of Fillory and, under their reign, Fillory is a peaceful kingdom. But Quentin is restless. He hasn't escaped the scars of his past, and the peace and luxury of his life in Fillory will prove more fragile than anyone expects.

After a royal morning hunt takes a sinister turn, Quentin's doubts get the better of him. With Julia, a queen of Fillory and Quentin's high school friend, in tow, he charters a magical sailing ship and heads off to the farthest reaches of Fillory. He is in search of adventure--the thrill and sense of purpose only a heroic quest can bestow. Instead his journey takes them to the last place Quentin wants to be: his parents' house in Chesterton, Massachusetts.

Quentin is a magician and a king, but even he can't rescue them from suburban America. only the dark, twisted sorcery Julia learned in the seedy back alleys of the Brooklyn underground magic scene can put them on the road back to Fillory. But when Julia takes center stage, so too does her story, and with it the secret of the terrible price she paid for her power. As Quentin and Julia follow a trail of clues from Brakebills to Venice to the home of the real-life children who appeared in the Fillory novels, they gradually discover a more sinister, more powerful threat than any they've faced. And they must fight death and despair in a world that is very far from the bright, simple fantasy novels they read as children.

In The Magicians, Lev Grossman shattered the limits of conventional fantasy writing by imagining magic as practiced in the real world by fallible and capricious people, without the clear absolutes of good and evil most fantasy heroes steer by. The Magician King sets these young magicians on an epic quest deep into the dark, glittering heart of magic to reveal the unexpected paradox behind being a hero. It also introduces a powerful new voice, that of Julia, whose angry genius is thrilling and terrifying. The juxtaposition of her rage and Quentin's yearning creates a novel of resonant psychological complexity and reckoning. Brilliant, inventive, and gut-wrenchingly authentic, The Magician King once again proves that Grossman is the modern heir to C. S. Lewis and the cutting edge of literary fantasy.

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Viking
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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3557.R6725 M28 2011, PS3557.R6725M28 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24857875M
Internet Archive
magiciankingnove0000gros
ISBN 13
9780670022311
LCCN
2011019733
OCLC/WorldCat
707969095

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